Gloucestershire & Warwickshire Railway: Cotswold Festival of Steam: 23rd of May 2026

Over the Bank Holiday period between the 23rd and 25th of May 2026, the Gloucester & Warwickshire Railway would host their annual Cotswold Festival of Steam gala event, featuring guest locomotives and a selection of the home fleet in operation over the course of the gala. The visitors for this year's edition would be ex-Caledonian Railway/BR 439 no. '15189', ex-Great Eastern Railway 0-4-0 no. '229', ex-Southern/BR unrebuilt Battle of Britain no. '34070, Manston', and BR Standard 2 no. '78022'. A last-minute addition to the gala was ex-LMS/BR Black Five 5MT no. '45110', fresh from overhaul after being sold to West Coast Railways in 2024. There has already been enough online regarding the severe delays the railway faced during the course of the day, so I won't touch on it. Being frank: I don't think this is my best work, and it will probably be one of the weaker gala videos I've made. Nevertheless, I managed to sample what I wanted to ride, which is what I set out to do, so I accomplished on that front. _____________________________ Due to the length of this video, I have broken it down into ‘Chapters’, where certain parts of it have been labelled correspondingly. Here, you can choose which moments you want to watch without having to search the entire feature. You can view them in the video playback bar or the description, where they’ll be listed with their time codes. LS = Lineside; all the shots taken from stations and vantage points. WS = Windowside; all the shots taken from the droplights of passenger trains. The locomotive/s hauling it will also be added. LS: Cheltenham Spa station - 00:00 WS: '6880', Cheltenham Spa to Winchcombe - 00:25 LS: Winchcombe station - 04:13 WS: '15189', Winchcombe to Toddington - 05:54 LS: Toddington station - 09:05 WS: '78022', Toddington to Winchcombe - 10:43 LS: Winchcombe station - 14:34 WS: '45110', Winchcombe to Toddington - 18:39 LS: Spitfire flypast - 22:06 WS: '6880' Broadway to Toddington - 22:48 WS: '6880' & '45110', Toddington to Cheltenham Spa - 24:51 WS: '45110' & '6880', Cheltenham Spa to Broadway - 27:16 WS: '6880', Broadway to Cheltenham Spa - 32:16 ______________________________ If you enjoyed watching this video and would like to see more of what I produce, check out my other social media outlets. Links to them are below. Feel free to follow/like them if you enjoy what I make and want to be one of the first to see new content when I release it. Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/kljtransport... Flickr: https://www.flickr.com/photos/kljtran... Current equipment as of 2026: Photography — Nikon D3400 w/ Nikon AF-P DX VR 18-55mm lens Video — PRIMARY: Panasonic HC-VX1 w/ Rode VideoMic Pro+ microphone SECONDARY: Panasonic HC-VX870 ACCESSORIES: K&F Concept 62mm Variable ND Filter (For video) All opinions that may be expressed are my own.