Rather than selling tickets per se, the Severn Valley Railway

issues bands once the requisite cash has been handed over. Guards and platform staff walk around not calling 'tickets please' but asking, 'can I see your wrist please'! To differentiate the four days of the gala the bands are issued in a variety of colours, the first day, Thursday, was the green day! All in all, a great day out with an incredible range of locomotives in action and intensive timetable that many heritage lines can only dream of; it was just a shame that the organisers could not have laid on some better weather for Andy and myself!