We are spending today preserving yesterday, so you can enjoy it tomorrow.
Here is a picture of Orton Mere Box taken at night. Awaiting a guest locomotive that was spending the night with us.
© 2024 Phil Venn
The box is rarely open at night so pleased to get this picture sent by Phil Venn and my thanks to him for sending it.
656 of course ran in Denmark before it arrived at the Nene Valley Railway.
I have been kindly sent two images, one from 1955 and a second from 1971. Please respect the copyright of these images.
First we have 1955. Taken in Nyborg.
Secondly we have 1971. This image was taken at Esbjerg.
I hope you enjoy looking at these images and I hope to be able to post more in due course.
Last weekend saw Danish locomotive 656 hauling passengers for the first time in 38 years.
Here it is arriving at Peterborough Nene Valley on Saturday.
It looked right hauling the three Belgian coaches and the single Danish coach. There are many members who were not even born when this locomotive was last in service.
Sunday saw it in service again, and here it is approaching Overton on its way to Peterborough.
I have seen lots of comments from both members and visitors with very positive comments.
Without doubt this will be a popular locomotive, and it’s nice to see it back on the line.
It was nice to see the HST out last weekend.
On Saturday with passenger services and on Sunday with driver experience runs.
Semi modern and current locomotive types seem to attract visitors. These two examples the HST the class 66 locomotives have always proved popular.
It will be interesting to see how popular 656 is next weekend in its first time pulling passengers after many years out of service.
I await next weekend with interest.