Class 56 098 with a Convoy for the Diesel Gala with The Mark 3s the Prototype HST on Thursday the  7th of April 2016 along the Fletton Branch which gives the Nene Valley a main line connection with the ECML at Fletton Junction in Peterborough.

 

After the Mid-Norfolk Railways Diesel Gala the weekend be for these locomotives had gone to Leicester on the Monday morning. The Convoy returning from Leicester on the Thursday to the NVR.

Class 56006 at the rear of the Convoy for the Diesel Gala with class 50008 between it and the Prototype HST and The Mark 3s along the Fletton Branch heading for Orton Mere on Thursday the 7th of April 2016.

 

Class 56 098 with the Convoy for the Diesel Gala with the Mark 3s and the Prototype HST and the class 50 and 56 on Thursday the 7th of April 2016 at the Nene Valleys Orton Mere station.

 

I only just got to Orton Mere from the Fletton branch as all the sets of traffic lights were at red. The convoy was on the move as I drove up to the station.

 

 

The Nene Valley Railway runs from Peterborough to Wansford railway station and then on to Yarwell junction. Wansford Station is on part of the old A1 at Stibbingson and is about 2 miles from the village of Wansford itself. The railway line is about 7 1/2 miles long. Trains run at weekends for most of the year.

The station at Wansford railway station is open from around 9am to 4.30 on most days. (check on there web site for times) The line runs trains from this country and also from abroad. As well as steam locomotives it also has main line and industrial diesels. It has wagons and coaches and a large collection of railway bits and bobs. At the Peterborough end of the NVR is the Rail World Museum which is next to the Nene Valley Railways Peterborough station.

 

This website is Ukrailways1970tilltoday.me.uk it is on railways but it is not just on trains but all things railways, with photos, which I have taken from the 1970s till now. I take photos of all things railways, steam diesel and electric trains, signal boxes, wagons any thing that is on the National Rail network, which was BR when I started taking photos

Today ,LNER, Hull trains and Greater Anglia are just some of the names on the trains. The name on the train does not mean, thats whos train it is these days. These names keep changing, but that means I have to keep taking photos. I also take photos of preserved railways with steam diesel and electric trains.There is lots more to add and I keep taking More!