Day: 13 March 2025

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Here we go again.

A couple of days ago hot on the heels of Flying Scotsman saw Britannia arrive for a weeks visit where it will be busy with a photo charter, driver experience, passenger services and a dining train on Saturday evening.

Wednesday kicked off with a freight photo charter, mixed weather but not a bad day for photography.

Here are a couple of freight charter pictures from Thomas Woolley, and my thanks to him for sending them.

You can see what I mean by not a bad day for photography..

I am sure the passenger services will be full over the weekend,

Another great visit, and I can’t help but wonder what ,else will visit through the year.

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That was a brilliant visit.

There are visiting locomotives that bring in visitors and then there is Flying Scotsman.

It was sure to be a memorable visit and it exceeded expectations, I mean even the weather was on our side for a change.

Record visitors and more importantly happy visitors.

Looking at it from behind the web cams where I supplied up to date information, times and answered questions. We had times when over 100 visitors were watching the Wansford cam on YouTube, with large numbers visiting the Orton Mere cam to see the services run through the station, supported excellently by the Pacer running a shuttle service.

We had a number of coaches visit, and afterwards several of the passengers used technology on the move to connect to the web cam and join in the chat, all commenting on how much they had enjoyed themselves.

It must rate as one the most if not the most successful visit.

Now we come to Britannia…….