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
Southern Freight Driver Experience
Today sees another freight driver experience on the railway.
This time 92 Squadron is providing the pulling power.
Here it is running round over the bridge approaching Wansford station.
Here we have the freight returning to Wansford crossing the River Nene.
Perfect day for playing trains though a bit on the hot side with the temperature here currently at 33.2c
Events like this are nice earners for the railway and enjoyable for those participating as well. No doubt a good day will be had by all.
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.
Jason’s Picture of the Month June 2022
55022 Royal Scots Grey running as 55007 Pinza fires up at Wansford in summer 2016.
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
Southern Photographic charter.
Good news for Thomas
Good news for Thomas and Thomas fans.
His new boiler tubes arrived this afternoon.
Bank Holiday Weekend Miniature Railway Running
We are running Miniature Train Services on Saturday and Monday from 10am to 3 pm, on Sunday our shop will be open only. We have a wide selection of Trackside models, OO gauge wagons, books and much more.
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.
The four days of Easter
Easter can be a funny time of year, it’s success or otherwise is very dependent on the weather. Many say it always seems colder on Easter weekends.
Anyway, this year was different, we had four nice days weather wise and on all four days 92 Squadron provided hauling of all services.
It does no harm to be running a large locomotive on busy weekends. 92 Squadron did us proud. All services were almost to or on time.
For me personally it seemed quite strange not to be at a station, but circumstances dictate otherwise. So as with other running days we manned the Webcam and chat and we were busy there instead with people after anything from a chat to specific information.
The trains were busy and the visitors happy judging from the feedback we got on the cam. Nice to see smiling faces as the train passes.
Credit must be given to all the working members who were working over the weekend, the railway was shown at it’s best.
I could of course post some pictures of previous Easter holidays complete with a mixture of the following, rain, sleet or snow but that would not be fair. We had a super weekend on the railway and hopefully it will be the first of many in the future.