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GBRf weekend.
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- September 6, 2024
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This weekend sees a joint event with GBRf, full details are on the NVR web site. The weather forecast is good and the railway will no doubt be busy. Its events like this that I miss being involved in, but still being confined to the house I can only watch on the webcams. So if …
Fifty Years Ago.
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- April 8, 2024
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This weekend marked a very monumental milestone in the history of the NVR – 50 years since the first train in preservation ran on the railway. The train consisted of Hudswell Clarke no.1539 “Derek Crouch” and one Mk1 and ran from the BSC site up to Wansford and return, departing at just gone 13:00 on …
The wrong time of the year.
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- November 12, 2023
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With this being the run up to the Santa services I was reminded of a visitor to Orton Mere Station some years ago. She asked if we had thought of running the Santa services in the summer when the weather was warmer and often sunny as it would encourage more people to book! She then …