Class 50019 Ramillies
Class 50019 in Dereham station during the Mid-Norfolk's Diesel gala on Friday 23rd September in 2011
Class 50019 Ramillies at Dereham station.
Class 50019 is named Ramillies. It entered BR service in 1968 with the number D419. It was named in 1978 as Ramillies. This name is from a 1916 R class battleship
This class 50 was withdrawn by BR in 1990 and was bought by the Class 50 Locomotive Association. It went to theTunbridge Wells and Eridge Railway be for coming to the Mid Norfolk Railway in 1999. It is painted in BR blue and has the BR large arrows and full yellow ends.
Next page is the MNR steam Gala in 2011
The Mid-Norfolk Railway Preservation Trust
It was only around 1995 that The Mid-Norfolk Railway Preservation Trust started to restore this line between Dereham and Wymondham. It now has 17.5 miles of track (11.5 miles is in use) which when its is all in use, will be one of longer preserved railways in the UK. A lot of the other preserved railways had already had a twenty year start when they started.
Trains run now between Dereham and Wymondham. The next section from Dereham to County School is next. There is a even longer term aim to reach as far as Fakenham. The way they are going, they may well get there.
The Mid-Norfolk Railway's own web site is at
Next page is the MNR stem Gala in 2011
