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The Mid-Norfolk Railway
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'Diesel Gala 30th March 2012'
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Class 20069
Class 20069 at the Mid-Norfolk's Diesel gala in March 2012 in Derham station.
This class 20 was built at the Vulcan Foundry Works of the English Electric Company Ltd in 1961 and had the number D 8069. It later had the number 20069.
Class 20069 with its old number D069 come into Thuxton station with class 50019 having come from Dereham
The class 50 at the rear of the class 20 is Class 50019 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This class 50 was withdrawn by BR in 1990 and was bought by the Class 50 Locomotive Association.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.
This Mid-Norfolk Railway Diesel gala was on Friday the 30th and 31st March and Sunday April the 1st 2012.
I went on the Friday to this Mid-Norfolk Railway Diesel Gala. This was the railways first Diesel Gala of 2012. Three locomotives had been booked in, to add to the Mid Norfolks own collection of mainline diesel locomotives. A Class 55 A class 40 (D335 on this Page) and a class 37. The class 55 or as it is better known as, a Deltic, was the star of the weekend. The Deltic and the class 40 which was painted in British Railways green with its old number of D355 had come by rail light engines from the East Lancashire Railway on the Thursday by way of Peterborough and Ely. The class 37 did get to the MNR till Saturday so I did not see it. The railways own class 20 class 31 and class 37 and class 50 also were also in use.
Mid-Norfolk Railway Diesel 2012 gala pages
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
Page updated 15/7/2019
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