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Steam gala

cotswold festival of steam

In this special year celebrating 200 years of passenger rail travel, this year's GWSR Cotswold Festival of steam celebrates everything great about the railways with an exciting line up of guest locomotives alongside our home fleet, including our latest resident, new-build 6880 Betton Grange, returning after its starring role at last year's gala.

Tickets and Pricing

Tickets can be bought on the day or in advance online at a lower price. As a special deal to celebrate Railway 200, on the bank holiday Monday kids go free! Click the button below to book now.

 

On the day pricing

 

Adult: £ 38:00 Adult 2 Day: £ 76:00 Adult 3 Day £ 100:00
Child £ 19:00 Child 2 Day £ 38:00 Child 3 Day: £ 50:00
Family £ 95:00      -- | --      -- | --
Adult late entry £ 28:00 Child late entry £ 12:00 Family late entry £ 75:00

 

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guest locos

34092 City of Wells

BR West Country class 34092 “City of Wells”

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75069

BR standard 4

75069 is visiting courtesy of our friends at the Severn Valley Railway

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SECR O1 No.65

Stirling "O" class

Built in 1896 at Ashford as a Stirling "O" class locomotive, it received a rebuild to class "O1" in 1908, and ran on until finally withdrawn in 1961. No. 65 was one of the class that ran with an LCDR tender for a while. According to Bradley, this was from M-class 4-4-0 No. 617, between 1914 and 1925.

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Home locos

3850

Steam Locomotive

A '2884' class heavy freight locomotive, built 1942. Owned by Dinmore Manor Locomotive Limited. It's comprehensive 10-year overhaul has just been completed at Toddington. It returned to steam on August 2024, bearing the wartime black GWR livery it carried when new.

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Standard 76077

Standard 4

Toddington Standard Locomotive ltd's Standard 4 76077 is coming home

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2807

Steam Locomotive

A '28xx' class heavy freight locomotive, built in 1905. The locomotive is owned by Cotswold Steam Preservation Limited and, after a 29 year restoration, is one of the GWR's resident locomotives.

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Betton Grange

Steam Locomotive

Betton Grange, which uses components from other scrapped classes of GWR locomotive, fills an important gap in the number of surviving GWR-designed two-cylinder locomotives. Steaming for the first time in 2024, 6880 visits us courtesy of the Betton Grange society.

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Foremarke Hall

STEAM LOCOMOTIVE

Although every inch a Great Western Railway thoroughbred, No. 7903 Foremarke Hall was one of the 79XX series, in the last batch of the Modified Hall class built at Swindon in 1949 under BR auspices.

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Peninsular & Oriental S. N. Co.

STEAM LOCOMOTIVE

35006 Peninsular & Oriental S. N. Co. is a Southern Railway rebuilt Merchant Navy Class 4-6-2 steam locomotive. It was built at Eastleigh locomotive works in December 1941 and given the Southern Railway number 21C6.

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Things to see and do

An intensive timetable will be operating over the full length of the line with goods trains, local stopping services including at Hayles Abbey Halt, and non-stop expresses. The timetable will appear here when published.

At Broadway:

  • View progress on our newest station
  • Visit our new shop
  • Browse the Friends of Broadway fundraising shop
  • Broadway station Tea Room open.

At Toddington:

  • Locomotive sheds open to view current projects
  • Trade stands
  • Goods train brake van rides - A unique way to experience the line, ride on the brake van for a different view! First come first served, an additional ticket is required , pay on the brake van. Over 16s only.‍
  • Footplate rides - Treat yourself to something special and purchase a pre-booked footplate ride on one of our home fleet engines. The price of your footplate ride, includes entry to the gala. Please check back soon to purchase.‍
  • Visit our new Cotswold Halt Café, coffee shop, gift shop and bar
  • Narrow gauge operating steam train rides
  • Visit the GWRT Office - we are open for our visitors to come and talk to us about Membership and Volunteering etc.

At Winchcombe:

  • Carriage & Wagon workshops open to view projects
  • Viewing area beyond C&W workshops
  • Griddle & Coffeepot Tea Room
  • Discovery coach and model railway coach.

At Gotherington:

  • Private station groundsopen specially
  • Ride on the pump trolley
  • Good spot for viewing passing trains.

At Cheltenham:

  • Steam loco cab visits
  • Connecting bus service with Cheltenham Spa
  • Original 1912 ticket office open
  • Snacks by Tracks refreshments
  • Goods train brake van rides - A unique way to experience the line, ride on the brake van for a different view! First come first served, an additional ticket is required, pay on the brake van. Over 16s only.‍
  • Footplate rides - Treat yourself to something special and purchase a pre-booked footplate ride on one of our home fleet engines. The price of your footplate ride, includes entry to the gala.
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