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2023 spring diesel festival 'Celebrating five decades of diesel preservation'
*'''2016''' New 'Spring Diesel Festival format with significantly more guest locomotives. Sunday 'mixed traction' day from 2017 on.
*'''2019''' Reintroduction of an Autumn Diesel Gala with home locos only.
*'''2020''' No galas took place due to the [[2020 coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic]]*'''2023''' The spring diesel festival took the theme of 'Celebrating five decades of diesel preservation' after [[BR Class 42 D821 Greyhound]] entered preservation in 1973. The first large diesel preserved was the prototype Deltic as a static exhibit in 1963, and the first mainline locomotive ex-LMS 0-6-0DM 7401 in June 1960, hauling trains that summer at the Middleton Railway.
==Passenger numbers==
| 2022 Spring || 4,500|| Internal NBI ||
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| 2022 Autumn || 2,806|| <ref>[https://www.svrlive.com/bloct22 Branch Lines October 2022)]</ref> || Plus significant numbers of shareholders travelling on passes and complimentary tickets.|-| 2023 Spring || || ||
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