Date: 20/01/2011

THE beleagured Gloucestershire and Warwickshire Steam Railway has been “brought to its knees” after suffering a second major embankment collapse within 12 months.

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Second disaster for steam railway

Evesham Journal

THE beleagured Gloucestershire and Warwickshire Steam Railway has been brought to its knees after suffering a second major embankment collapse

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Reminiscent of a David Shepherd painting perhaps... the artist's BR 9F 2-10-0 no 92203 Black Prince emerging from the smoke and steam at Winchcombe on the Gloucestershire Warwickshire Railway on 7 December 2008.
Location: Winchcombe
Company: Cheltenham and Honeybourne Line (Great Western Railway)
07/12/2008 Peter Todd

EE Type 3 37215 brings up the rear on a service leaving Winchcombe for Gotherington where G&WR services are temporarily terminating whilst a landslip is dealt with. The locomotive is in excellent condition and, apart from looking a little ex works, is just how I remember the Class 37s when in regular service [See image 29977].
Location: Winchcombe
Company: Cheltenham and Honeybourne Line (Great Western Railway)
17/07/2010 Mark Bartlett

5080 Defiant running along the embankment into Winchcombe with a train on the Gloucestershire Warwickshire Railway on 12 August 1990.
Location: Winchcombe
Company: Cheltenham and Honeybourne Line (Great Western Railway)
12/08/1990 Peter Todd