Well here we are with another running weekend, and at the moment wall to wall sunshine. Hopefully a good weekend for the railway, all tourist attractions are affected by lower numbers. This is due to a number of things. All we can do is to continue to present the railway at its best and give …
Category: Wansford Station
July visitors
No doubt many of you will have seen that we have both Tornado and a Deltic visiting the railway in July. This is excellent news, both will be running together and drive experience days will be available. But take your time to look at other events available throughout the year. There seems to be something …
Busy time
This weekend sees the ever popular diesel gala. It’s always a busy weekend. Diesel supporters always seem keen to travel on all the services they can. Nice to see a gbRf class 66 visiting once again. Always a popular loco with visitors. If you are able to visit then I hope you will do so. …
Well that was August.
Well that’s August out of the way. A busy month with lots of activity around the railway. It’s months like this when we can forget the activity that goes on behind the scenes. In the sheds and along the line doing work that enables the railway to run safely. Mention must also be made of …
Travelling Post Office
This weekend sees the return of the travelling post office. In the past this has always been very popular with visitors. On both Saturday and Sunday it’s doing two runs to the equipment at Sutton Cross to give demonstrations of mail exchanges. Let’s hope it will be a regular occurrence. At one stage it did …
A super day
Wednesday 3rd April was Autism day and we had a special, day with just Thomas running and events at Wansford geared towards the day. Had a number of people who had visited come up on the webcam chat saying how much they had enjoyed it. Well done to all those involved I am sure there …
Here we go again.
A couple of days ago hot on the heels of Flying Scotsman saw Britannia arrive for a weeks visit where it will be busy with a photo charter, driver experience, passenger services and a dining train on Saturday evening. Wednesday kicked off with a freight photo charter, mixed weather but not a bad day for …
That was a brilliant visit.
There are visiting locomotives that bring in visitors and then there is Flying Scotsman. It was sure to be a memorable visit and it exceeded expectations, I mean even the weather was on our side for a change. Record visitors and more importantly happy visitors. Looking at it from behind the web cams where I …
The First Weekend
Well that’s the first weekend of the visit by Flying Scotsman out of the way. Sitting at home looking after two web cams and answering questions and posting train details I must say I enjoyed it. Yes, I would loved to have opened Orton Mere, but I realise that’s not going to happen again. But …