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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 chartersand passenger work.
==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. In 2018 heavy snow hit the third day (Sunday). The Railway still managed to run the services as planned.
==Passenger numbers==
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| 2017 || 4,537|| ||
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| 2018 || 4,541|| || The Gala was hit by heavy snow, resulting in reduced attendance
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