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Events

Dates for your diary

We'd love to see you in person at our events and presentations throughout 2025.

Here are our upcoming events and presentations:

Footplate Visits

We hope to be opening up the footplate of 48773 to visitors to the Engine House, on the Severn Valley Railway at Highley, during the following events in 2025:

  • 5 January                                    Winter Steam Gala and Heritage Railway event

  • 5 and 6 April                                Open House Weekend

  • 20 and 21 April                            Spring Steam Gala

  • 3 and 4 May                                Model Railway Weekend

  • 20 and 21 September                   Autumn Steam Gala

  • 18 and 19 October                       O Gauge Get Together

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Other opportunities to view 48773 are during special event days on the Severn Valley Railway:

  • Celebrating 60 Years of the SVR: 26-27 July

  • Vintage Transport Extravaganza: 9-10 August​

Life  & Times of 48773 Presentation

Manchester Locomotive Society

  • Date: Saturday 22nd February 2025

  • Location: The Meeting Room, Stockport Station, SK3 9HZ

  • Time: 14:30

  • Presenter: Ian Chapman

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Pewsey Vale Railway Society

  • Date: Tuesday 11th March 2025

  • Location: Woodborough Social Club, Smithy Lane, Woodborough, Wiltshire, SN9 5PL      

  • Time: 14:45

  • Presenter: Jeff Ryan

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The Railway Correspondence & Travel Society

  • Date: Monday 5th May 2025

  • Location: RCTS Furness, Lakes & Lune Branch at Royal Station Hotel, Market Street, Carnforth, LA5 9BT      

  • Time: 19:30 - 21:30

  • Presenter: Ian Chapman

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Rainhill Railway Heritage Society

  • Date: Monday 12th May 2025

  • Location: St Ann's Millennium Centre, View Road, Rainhill, L35 0LE

  • Time: 19:15 for 19:45 start

  • Presenter: Ian Chapman

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