We are spending today preserving yesterday, so you can enjoy it tomorrow.
Writing this before we begin four days of services celebrating the Platinum Jubilee of the Queen.
We have steam services all four days with 92 Squadron the first three and the locomotive Bahamas on Sunday.
I think this is a weekend where I will miss not being at Orton Mere, time like this were fun with nice visitors and plenty of business for the railway,.
Enjoy the Jubilee.
55022 Royal Scots Grey running as 55007 Pinza fires up at Wansford in summer 2016.
Thursday to Sunday sees the Queens Platinum Jubilee, and like everywhere else we are celebrating this special occasion.
We have numerous events over the four days culminating with the locomotive Bahamas visiting us and pulling the three services on Sunday.
No doubt this will be popular, when the locomotive was with us before it generated a lot of positive interest.
So whatever you’re doing this Jubilee weekend have a great time, and if you’re visiting the railway look at all we have on offer a visit is so much more than just a train ride.
Our Jubilee Trains will be running on Thursday 2nd and Friday 3rd June from 10 to 3pm.
Rides only £1 each, our shop will also be open selling Union Jack Hand flags, a big selection of Trackside Models, OO Gauge wagons, books, DVD and much more.
Bring the kids along for a ride on a Miniature a Jubilee Train
As a local Registered Charity (No. 263617) we need a little HELP to keep us running at our desired speed after a rough couple of years.
Can you spare a day or two to help our One Man Band Employed Track Manager & his Merry Team of 5 to 10 Strong Team of willing volunteers to change 500 sleepers on our tracks?
We have set aside 3 weeks in our running schedule to get this work completed, so if you are a local business and can spare a few willing people who are fit and able please message us and we look forward to welcoming you to Nene Valley Railway. Refreshments and facilities will be provided.
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.
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!
Visiting from the North Yorkshire Moors Railway Schools Class 926 Repton arrives at back Wansford during railways 2019 Spring Gala.
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
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.