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Spring Steam Gala

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The Spring Gala is the smaller of the two annual enthusiasts' galas with visiting locomotives and a more intensive timetable, but without the all night running of the [[Autumn Gala]]
This event is typically in late March and is now billed by the SVR as "opening the season", even though trains commence for the February half-term week. The event incorporates three days of Gala from Friday to Sunday. Other common features include demonstration freight trains and shorter local, part-line services.
 
Visiting locomotives are also often utilised in the days after the gala for private photographic charters.
 
==Notable events==
*'''2004''' and '''2011''' No Galas due to engineering work.
*'''2013''' The Spring Steam Gala was hit by heavy snow, resulting in attendances being around half of the numbers expected. The Railway still managed to run the services as planned.
 
==Passenger numbers==
From time-to-time the SVR publishes the number of Gala passengers, according to the method of counting these which has varied over time (for example, since 2010 documents sent to shareholders became valid as a ticket which did not need to be exchanged for travel.)<ref>[http://forum.svra.org.uk/viewtopic.php?t=1936 SVR Forum shareholders' Passes thread]</ref>
 
The following is an incomplete record.
 
{| class="wikitable sortable"
!Year !! Number of passengers!! Reference !! Notes
|-
| 2008 || || ||
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| 2009 || || ||
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| 2010 || || ||
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| 2011 || || || No Gala due to engineering work.
|-
| 2012 || 4,209|| <ref name="SSG1 ">[http://forum.svra.org.uk/viewtopic.php?t=2305&start=195 'Spring Gala 2012', SVR Online thread]</ref> ||
|-
| 2013 || || || The Gala was hit by heavy snow, resulting in reduced attendance
|-
| 2014 ||3,900 || ||
|-
| 2015 || 4,313|| ||
|-
| 2016 ||3,537 || || Depressed number because of the non-appearance at the gala of announced visitor [[6990 Witherslack Hall]]
|-
| 2017 || 4,537|| ||
|-
|}
==See also==
[[Steam Locomotives visiting the SVR for galas]]<br>[[SVR Passenger numbers]] ==References==<references />
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