Thomas has sent me these excellent images of the events, I will post without comments as they are there to enjoy for some relive an excellent day.
All images are © Thomas Woolley.
More of the freight driver experience and photo evening
Advanced driver experience.
Yesterday the railway held an advanced steam driver experience day.
The locomotive was Bahamas.
Here are a couple of pictures of the locomotive. Shame it’s leaving us on the 10th June.
Here the first picture shows the locomotive at Wansford station. Some nice rain clouds in the background.
The second image shows the locomotive coupled to the carriages at Yarwell before running back to Wansford, then onwards to Peterborough Nene Valley station.
Driver experience days, of all types are always popular. The opportunity to drive and fire a famous or large locomotive is always a draw for people of all ages.
My thanks to Matthew Alden Farrow for the images.
A funny old weekend
The Jubilee weekend was a funny old weekend.
The first two days were excellent weather wise and people were out to enjoy themselves.
Saturday was not too bad either. In the evening Bahamas arrived off the main line late and in the dark! At Wansford it was found to have an issue and therefore was not available for service as planned on Sunday.
92 Squadron pulled the Sunday services in its place. Most people seemed happy. There are lots of excellent photos and videos of the weekend on YouTube so well worth a trawl.
So all in all a great weekend and hopefully a profitable one for the railway.
Jason’s Picture of the Month June 2022
55022 Royal Scots Grey running as 55007 Pinza fires up at Wansford in summer 2016.
Getting ready for the weekend.
Thursday to Sunday sees the Queens Platinum Jubilee, and like everywhere else we are celebrating this special occasion.
We have numerous events over the four days culminating with the locomotive Bahamas visiting us and pulling the three services on Sunday.
No doubt this will be popular, when the locomotive was with us before it generated a lot of positive interest.
So whatever you’re doing this Jubilee weekend have a great time, and if you’re visiting the railway look at all we have on offer a visit is so much more than just a train ride.
Wansford Miniature Railway
Our Jubilee Trains will be running on Thursday 2nd and Friday 3rd June from 10 to 3pm.
Rides only £1 each, our shop will also be open selling Union Jack Hand flags, a big selection of Trackside Models, OO Gauge wagons, books, DVD and much more.
Bring the kids along for a ride on a Miniature a Jubilee Train
The Swedish railcar & trailer
This weekend the railcar and trailer are dong a park and ride service, for a festival in Nene Park.
Here it is arriving back at Wansford.
Southern Photographic charter.
Jason’s Picture of the month May 2022
The Class 14 on freight driver experience at Peterborough Nene Valley Station. April 2022.
Freight Driver Experience or Things that go bump in the day!
As anybody who supports or visits the railway knows we do driver experience days on a regular basis.
Well today we did something a little different we had a diesel freight driver experience using a selection of wagons and the class 14 locomotive.
It sold out and has shown to be very popular.
So here are a few images of the day.
As you can see the weather was for the most part nice and sunny.
I am sure that there will be more freight driver experience days in the future.
For those who missed it we will be running freight trains in between the main service on the 1st May with three runs of the freight train.
The wagon group have put in a lot of time and effort into getting the wagons as they are now, and I look forward to seeing more of their work in the future.
Who knows perhaps we may see the Travelling Post Office running again on the line.