STEAM engine lovers gathered in Didcot to commemorate 50 years since the town’s engine shed closed.
Didcot Railway Centre invited families to its base during the Bank Holiday weekend to join its Steam Gala festivities.
It marked the 50th anniversary of the closure of the Great Western engine shed, which saw the steam locomotives removed from railway lines.
Railway centre manager Roger Orchard, 60, of Steventon, said almost 2,000 visitors passed through the centre’s doors between Saturday and Monday.
He added: “It was a very good three days. Everybody really enjoyed themselves.”
“Where we are based at the railway centre, it’s all built around the Great Western engine shed put up in the mid-1930s.
“For railway enthusiasts who like steam engines, we try to commemorate dates when steam engines disappeared off the railway network.”
Mr Orchard said Families saw five steam locomotives and watched how the engines worked 50 years ago.
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