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The Mid-Norfolk Railway
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'Diesel Gala 30th March 2012'
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Class 31235
Class 31235 on 30th March 2012 during the Diesel Gala, having just run round its train will now bring the train back into the station. Just be for the class 47 gala later in 2012 one of these trees (part?) fell down, meaning that this loop could not be used and trains had to be top and tailed.
Wymondham Abbey station is about 1/2 mile from the Wymodham main line station which is on the Norwich to Ely line. Trains from Dereham stop at the MNR Abbey station, then cross over the level crossing and into a run round loop were the locomotive runs round its train be for bringing the stock back into the station. The MNR would like to get nearer or even use the main line station.
Class 31235 at Wymondham Abbey station having just come from Dereham
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 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 2012 Diesel 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 Mid-Norfolk Railway's own web site is at
Page updated 7/8/2019