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For 1992, the now annual Diesel Gala reverted to May and became a 3-day event from Friday to Sunday with seven guest locomotives. This format was repeated in 1993 and 1994, with both years featuring 5 guest locomotives. However at the start of 1995, SVR News noted that "''The Thomas the Tank Engine and Autumn Steam Gala events brought successful business in 1994, and these will be repeated. The Diesel Gala was less so, and a different formula is to be tried in 1995. This involves our home-based diesel locos and the DMU operating on selected dates; there have been complaints of under-use of our own assets, and this is an attempt to remedy this.''"
Following this one-year absence, Diesel Galas returned in October 1986 1996 and October 19871997, although both were two-day events on Friday / Saturday featuring home locomotives only. October 1998 saw a similar format with a return to the use of guest locomotives (which would then feature in all subsequent diesel galas), while October 1999 reverted to a 3-day Friday to Sunday event.
2000 again saw a 3-day Friday to Sunday event end of season event with, for the first time, all trains on the Friday being diesel-hauled. This format continued until 2005, with a one-year switch to an April date in 2001.
