{"id":1208,"date":"2026-05-26T13:45:54","date_gmt":"2026-05-26T12:45:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/crowboroughminiaturerailway.com\/blog\/?p=1208"},"modified":"2026-08-03T16:43:31","modified_gmt":"2026-08-03T15:43:31","slug":"diesel-gala-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/crowboroughminiaturerailway.com\/blog\/?p=1208","title":{"rendered":"Diesel Gala 8th August 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"1208\" class=\"elementor elementor-1208\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-0fa5e5e e-flex e-con-boxed e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"0fa5e5e\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-5e3f3b9 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"5e3f3b9\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"xdj266r x14z9mp xat24cr x1lziwak x1vvkbs x126k92a\">\u00a0<\/div><p>A showcase of our Diesel locomotives.<br class=\"html-br\" \/>Our range of Diesel locomotives are modeled on those from several countries and designed for various jobs &#8211; shunting, freight, express passenger.<br class=\"html-br\" \/>Look out for petrol powered locomotives &#8211; these are not normally used on passenger trains on our railway and will be something quite different! Trains during the day may be double headed (two locomotives hauling one train) or top and tailing (a second locomotive pushing at the rear of the train). We have 9 locomotives rostered and will be running at different times throughout the afternoon (subject to availability). Currently confirmed locomotives are as follows;<\/p><ul><li>Industrial Narrow Gauge Shunter<\/li><li><div dir=\"auto\">BR Class D2\/11 &#8216;Brush&#8217;<\/div><\/li><li>BR Class 20 &#8216;Chopper&#8217;<\/li><li>BR Class 23 &#8216;Baby Deltic&#8217;<\/li><li>BR Class 31 &#8216;Goyle&#8217;<\/li><li>BR Class 33 &#8216;Crompton&#8217;<\/li><li>BR Class 35 &#8216;Hymek&#8217;<\/li><li><div dir=\"auto\">BR Class 40 &#8216;Whistler&#8217;<\/div><\/li><li><div class=\"x14z9mp xat24cr x1lziwak x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a\"><div dir=\"auto\">Industrial Shunter &#8211; Petrol<\/div><div dir=\"auto\">\u00a0<\/div><div dir=\"auto\">We will finish the day with a CroLoad formed of all our passenger carriages top and tailed by two BR outline mainline locomotives.<\/div><\/div><\/li><\/ul><div dir=\"auto\"><div dir=\"auto\">\u00a0<\/div><\/div><p>Extended opening from 1pm to 6pm but normal fares apply;<br class=\"html-br\" \/>\u00a31 Single Ride<br class=\"html-br\" \/>\u00a34 Day Rover &#8211; unlimited rides on day of issue (ideal to get to ride behind all the different locomotives)\u00a0<\/p><p>Please note the Diesel Gala has been rescheduled from June due to bad weather.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-6c86d47 e-flex e-con-boxed e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"6c86d47\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-67f4eaa elementor-widget elementor-widget-image\" data-id=\"67f4eaa\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"image.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"660\" height=\"755\" src=\"https:\/\/crowboroughminiaturerailway.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Diesel-Gala-Aug-2026-Ad-768x879.png\" class=\"attachment-medium_large size-medium_large wp-image-1406\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/crowboroughminiaturerailway.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Diesel-Gala-Aug-2026-Ad-768x879.png 768w, https:\/\/crowboroughminiaturerailway.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Diesel-Gala-Aug-2026-Ad-262x300.png 262w, https:\/\/crowboroughminiaturerailway.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Diesel-Gala-Aug-2026-Ad-895x1024.png 895w, https:\/\/crowboroughminiaturerailway.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Diesel-Gala-Aug-2026-Ad-1342x1536.png 1342w, https:\/\/crowboroughminiaturerailway.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Diesel-Gala-Aug-2026-Ad-1790x2048.png 1790w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 660px) 100vw, 660px\" \/>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 A showcase of our Diesel locomotives.Our range of Diesel locomotives are modeled on those from several countries and designed for various jobs &#8211; shunting, freight, express passenger.Look out for petrol powered locomotives &#8211; these are not normally used on passenger trains on our railway and will be something quite different! Trains during the day &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/crowboroughminiaturerailway.com\/blog\/?p=1208\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Diesel Gala 8th August 2026<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":264,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_seo_schema_type":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1208","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-events"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/crowboroughminiaturerailway.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/IMG_20160806_114547477-e1751999196843.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9v9Wo-ju","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/crowboroughminiaturerailway.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1208","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/crowboroughminiaturerailway.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/crowboroughminiaturerailway.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crowboroughminiaturerailway.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crowboroughminiaturerailway.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1208"}],"version-history":[{"count":23,"href":"https:\/\/crowboroughminiaturerailway.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1208\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1435,"href":"https:\/\/crowboroughminiaturerailway.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1208\/revisions\/1435"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crowboroughminiaturerailway.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/264"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/crowboroughminiaturerailway.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1208"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crowboroughminiaturerailway.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1208"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crowboroughminiaturerailway.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1208"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}