0-6-0 Pannier Tank locomotives no's 1501 and 9466
Saturday 27th August 2016
Two Great Western 0-6-0PT Pannier Tank locomotives numbers 1501 and 9466 in Dereham Mid-Norfolk station on Saturday 27th August in 2016.
The same two Great Western 0-6-0PT Pannier Tank locomotives numbers 1501 and 9466 in Thuxston Mid-Norfolk station on Saturday 27th August in 2016
Great Western 0-6-0 Pannier Tank locomotive number 1501 light engine at Dereham station on the Saturday of this four day event.
This GWR Pannier Tank no.1501 was designed by Mr FW Hawkworth.The locomotive was ordered by the Great Western Railway but was outshoped after Nationalisation in 1949. The locomotive has Walchaerts valve gear fitted.
The locomotive is based at the Severn Valley Railway
Mid-Norfolk Railway Tanks and Tankard steam gala 28th August 2016
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
