Well that went well.

Last weekend saw Danish locomotive 656 hauling passengers for the first time in 38 years. Here it is arriving at Peterborough Nene Valley on Saturday. It looked right hauling the three Belgian coaches and the single Danish coach. There are many members who were not even born when this locomotive was last in service. Sunday …

Nice to see.

It was nice to see the HST out this weekend. On Saturday with passenger services and on Sunday with driver experience runs. Semi modern and current locomotive types seem to attract visitors. These two examples the HST the class 66 locomotives have always proved popular. It will be interesting to see how popular 656 is …

Christmas is upon us.

Well Christmas is almost upon us, and the last Santa service has been run.

I would like to take the opportunity to wish all readers of the blog a very merry Christmas and a happy New Year

Please remember that all contributions are welcome.

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