scud153's photos

English Electric class 40 - D335 hauls the 2E42 Wansford to Peterborough NV. passing Longueville Junction on the first service of the Annual Nene Valley Spring Diesel Gala on the 16.5.2014.

'NR' - Network Rail class 57/3 - 57310 (47817) hauls 'AGA' - Abellio Greater Anglia EMU class 379 'Electrostar' - 379013 as 5M57 1338 Ilford E.M.U.D. - Derby Bombardier Litchurch Lane, a rare sight passing Rearsby Leicestershire on the 14.5.2014. Whilst at Litchurch Lane battery packs are to be fitted & trialled as a means of additional propulsion.

'DRS' - Direct Rail Services class 57/0 57009 (47079), class 20/3 20302 with FNA's 550043 & 550034 trundle along the 'East Suffolk' line (passing blossoming Broom) near Eyke with the 6M69 1542 Sizewell BNFL. to Crewe 'loaded coal' under a threatening sky on the 9.5.2014.

'EOR' - Epping Ongar Railway resident 'Thumper' class 205205, resplendent in Network Southeast livery, passes through the lush Spring countryside of Essex with the 1100 North Weald via Coopersale to Ongar service on the 4.5.2014. This could almost have been a capture along the Ashford to Hastings line a decade or so ago !

'DRS' - Direct Rail Services class 20/3's 20302 & 20304 with FNA's 550034, 550047 - trundle along the 'East Suffolk' line passing Ufford as the 6M69 1542 Sizewell BNFL. to Crewe 'Loaded Coal' on the 16.4.2014.

English Electric Type 4 - Class 50007 'Hercules' passes Kimberley Park with 1W09 1230 Dereham to Wymondham (Network Rail boundary), the second day of the 'MNR' - Mid-Norfolk Railway Spring Diesel Gala on 5.4.2014.

'DRS' - Direct Rail Services class 37/6's 37607, Network Rail Test train - 72639, 977974, 9523 with 37611 rear, form the 1Q53 1000 Cambridge T.& R.S.M.D. to Derby RTC. ( Cambridge - Norwich leg ), passing Palmer's No 142 UWC. Padnal - Ely on 8.2.2014.

Once a sugar beet processing factory, The Potter Group Terminal Ely (now a modern Logistics & Warehousing Business), hosted what is thought to be a first for the site with Pathfinder's 'The Deviationer' 1Z20 0622 Crewe - Ely charter on 11.1.2014. DRS 37194 t&t 20305 'Gresty Bridge' 20302 pass along the stone discharge sidings soon after arrival.