Evening Photographic Shoot at the Spring Steam Spectacular Sunday 5th May 2024

This year as part of our Spring Steam Spectacular we will be offering an evening photographic shoot at Minehead Station.

This will feature a variety of locomotives, including visiting locos. We expect to be able to offer a selection of locomotive poses both with rolling stock in the Main Platform, and ‘on-shed’.

Subject to volunteer availability we will also have some reenactors available in some scenes. Poses will be carefully arranged so that modern features are hidden to create some heritage scenes to remember.

Opportunities will be available with both the shed floodlights switched on and off.

Please note that access to these photo shoots will be open to participants only, and will require pre-booking. Gala Rover tickets will not allow access to these evening events. Participants will be allowed platform access only, no trackside photographic opportunities will be available.

The Turntable Cafe will be open until 8pm offer hot and cold drinks plus snacks.

Sunday 5th May Right in the middle of the event, we will be offering a great opportunity to capture some photographs at Minehead. This photographic charter evening will feature visiting ‘Coal Tank’ no.1054, visiting 66XX no.6695 and another locomotive in a variety of poses.

The evening will begin with a loco posed in the platform with a passenger train. Several shots will be available whilst this loco is positioned in the platform, both with and without other engines on shed in the background. One loco will face Minehead, two locos will face Bishops Lydeard. The latter part of the evening will see all engines shunted over to the shed to pose together in some shed scenes. This event will take place between 19:45 and 22:15 on Sunday 5th May only.

Pricing information – 40 spaces at £40 per head.