This weekend the railcar and trailer are dong a park and ride service, for a festival in Nene Park.
Here it is arriving back at Wansford.
The Swedish railcar & trailer
Southern Photographic charter.
Jason’s Picture of the month May 2022
The Class 14 on freight driver experience at Peterborough Nene Valley Station. April 2022.
Freight Driver Experience or Things that go bump in the day!
As anybody who supports or visits the railway knows we do driver experience days on a regular basis.
Well today we did something a little different we had a diesel freight driver experience using a selection of wagons and the class 14 locomotive.
It sold out and has shown to be very popular.
So here are a few images of the day.
As you can see the weather was for the most part nice and sunny.
I am sure that there will be more freight driver experience days in the future.
For those who missed it we will be running freight trains in between the main service on the 1st May with three runs of the freight train.
The wagon group have put in a lot of time and effort into getting the wagons as they are now, and I look forward to seeing more of their work in the future.
Who knows perhaps we may see the Travelling Post Office running again on the line.
The four days of Easter
Easter can be a funny time of year, it’s success or otherwise is very dependent on the weather. Many say it always seems colder on Easter weekends.
Anyway, this year was different, we had four nice days weather wise and on all four days 92 Squadron provided hauling of all services.
It does no harm to be running a large locomotive on busy weekends. 92 Squadron did us proud. All services were almost to or on time.
For me personally it seemed quite strange not to be at a station, but circumstances dictate otherwise. So as with other running days we manned the Webcam and chat and we were busy there instead with people after anything from a chat to specific information.
The trains were busy and the visitors happy judging from the feedback we got on the cam. Nice to see smiling faces as the train passes.
Credit must be given to all the working members who were working over the weekend, the railway was shown at it’s best.
I could of course post some pictures of previous Easter holidays complete with a mixture of the following, rain, sleet or snow but that would not be fair. We had a super weekend on the railway and hopefully it will be the first of many in the future.
When the webcam had sound
Thw Wansford webcam used to have sound, and hopefully will have it again in the near future.
Here is a video when there was sound. Enjoy!
Back in the day.
One question that often pops up is Do we have any famous locomotives visit from the main line?
The answer of course is yes, and you just have to do a search to find any number of pictures.
But here is one taken some years ago, it shows Britannia at Orton Mere.
This is of course in the early days and those who know the station will see how open it used to be before the park was developed. How the place has changed over the years.
Jason’s Picture Of The Month April 2022
Visiting from the North Yorkshire Moors Railway Schools Class 926 Repton arrives at back Wansford during railways 2019 Spring Gala.
A Jubilee for a Queens Jubilee
The Railway is pleased to announce after a great deal of work that Jubilee No 45596 Bahamas will be visiting the NVR from the 4th to the 10th of June.
The locomotive during this time will work a Jubilee Special service on Sunday 5th June as part of the NVR Jubilee event, the locomotive will undertake main line running while at the NVR
The Wansford Box again
Some time ago I put some excellent pictures of the Wansford Box on the blog. Since then I have had requests for more pictures of the internal area.
So here they all are © Matthew Alden Farrow and my thanks to him for the images.
We hope to bring more pictures around Wansford and the other stations very shortly.