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charities / Events in Norfolk and Suffolk / Mid Norfolk Railway June 28, 2011
READ MOREMID-NORFOLK RAILWAY PRESERVATION TRUST The Wymondham-Dereham-North Elmham-County School Line STEAM GALA NEWS FROM THE MNR JINTY 47406 TO VISIT 16TH & 17TH July 2011, only 3 STEAM LOCOMOTIVES WILL NOW FEATURE IN THE MID NORFOLK RAILWAY’S FIRST EVER STEAM GALA KING EDWARD II, No 6023 GWR PANNIER TANK 9466 JINTY 47406 LMS Class 3F “JINTY” […]
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charities / Events in Norfolk and Suffolk / Food and Drink / Mid Norfolk Railway June 22, 2011
READ MOREMID-NORFOLK RAILWAY PRESERVATION TRUST The Wymondham-Dereham-North Elmham-County School Line AN EXTRA STEAM HAULED FISH & TRAIN Following continued requests to join the long since Fully Booked Steam Hauled Fish’n’Chip Train on Saturday, July 16th, the Mid Norfolk Railway will now be running an additional Fish’n’Chip train on FRIDAY, July 15th at 1900 hours. This will […]
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charities / Events in Norfolk and Suffolk / Mid Norfolk Railway / Then & Now June 20, 2011
READ MOREMID-NORFOLK RAILWAY PRESERVATION TRUST The Wymondham-Dereham-North Elmham-County School Line ANOTHER “FIRST” FROM THE MNR MNR ANNOUNCES MIDWEEK STEAM SERVICES On :- Wednesday 22nd and Wednesday 29th June Wednesday 6th, Thursday 7th July Wednesday 13th, Thursday 14th July Ex Great Western Railway Steam Locomotive King Edward II, no. 6023, will haul 4 round passenger trips between […]
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charities / Events in Norfolk and Suffolk / Mid Norfolk Railway / Then & Now June 8, 2011
READ MOREMID-NORFOLK RAILWAY PRESERVATION TRUST The Wymondham-Dereham-North Elmham-County School Line KING EDWARD II’s SUCCESSFUL FIRST WEEKEND For the first time since its withdrawal in 1962, King Edward II, No. 6023, the [ex] Great Western Railway’s most powerful passenger express 4-6-0 locomotive, has worked fare paying passenger trains over about 190 miles, without problem. Mid Norfolk Railway’s […]
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charities / Events in Norfolk and Suffolk / Mid Norfolk Railway / Then & Now May 31, 2011
READ MOREMID-NORFOLK RAILWAY PRESERVATION TRUST The Wymondham-Dereham-North Elmham-County School Line NEWS FROM THE MNR Co-incident with the visit of the ex-Great Western Railway’s most powerful 4-6-0 passenger express locomotive, King Edward II, to the MNR between 4th June and 17th July…….. MNR has arranged the loan of the historic London&North Eastern Railway’s Beavertail observation […]
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charities / Events in Norfolk and Suffolk / Mid Norfolk Railway / Then & Now May 18, 2011
READ MOREMID-NORFOLK RAILWAY PRESERVATION TRUST The Wymondham-Dereham-North Elmham-County School Line NEWS FROM THE MNR Today ex South West Trains electro-diesel 73109 locomotive should be underway, being towed behind overhead line powered locomotive 86101 from London to Norwich. From Norwich 73109 will tow 86101 to the MNR. 86101 should feature in this coming weekend’s Drags & Rescues […]
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charities / Events in Norfolk and Suffolk / Mid Norfolk Railway / Then & Now May 9, 2011
READ MOREMID-NORFOLK RAILWAY PRESERVATION TRUST The Wymondham-Dereham-North Elmham-County School Line Big Visitors for May events at the Mid-Norfolk Railway Two rare locomotives will be visiting the Mid-Norfolk Railway during May for it’s tack-to-back weekends of bumper special events. The first weekend over May 14th and 15th 2011 is titled ‘Drags and Rescues’ and will see not […]
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charities / Events in Norfolk and Suffolk / Mid Norfolk Railway / Then & Now April 25, 2011
READ MOREMID-NORFOLK RAILWAY PRESERVATION TRUST The Wymondham-Dereham-North Elmham-County School Line DRAGS & RESCUES WEEKEND, 14th & 15th May Following confirmation of the Network Rail path for the visiting East Midlands Trains High Speed Train [HST] on 14th May, MNR has issued a full timetable of services on its website [address details below]. HST is scheduled to […]
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charities / Events in Norfolk and Suffolk / Mid Norfolk Railway / Then & Now April 6, 2011
READ MOREMID-NORFOLK RAILWAY PRESERVATION TRUST The Wymondham-Dereham-North Elmham-County School Line KING EDWARD II COMING SOON TO THE MID-NORFOLK RAILWAY In front of c.3000 enthusiasts at 1pm on Saturday 2nd April 2011, at Didcot, Great Western Society [GWS] Chairman, Richard Croucher, spoke of the massive c.20 year task which his team had undertaken in restoring King Edward […]
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charities / Events in Norfolk and Suffolk / Mid Norfolk Railway / Then & Now March 15, 2011
READ MOREMID-NORFOLK RAILWAY PRESERVATION TRUST The Wymondham-Dereham-North Elmham-County School Line DIESEL GALA 18TH TO 20TH MARCH Please see the MNR Website for full details of the intensive TWO train operating timetable. Locomotives diagrammed to run are:- 20069 31438 37003 37219 47580 50019 73210 An hourly service is scheduled :- Starting………….. Friday 8.30am Dereham and 9.30am Wymondham […]
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charities / Mid Norfolk Railway / Then & Now February 23, 2011
READ MOREMID-NORFOLK RAILWAY PRESERVATION TRUST The Wymondham-Dereham-North Elmham-County School Line NEWS FROM THE MNR :- INITIAL DETAILS OF THE MARCH SPRING GALA ANNOUNCED UP TO 3 CLASS 56 LOCOS AND 37003, PLUS THE HOME FLEET MAY BE IN TRAFFIC OVER 18TH TO 20TH MARCH. MNR would like to thank the Class 56 Group for their refurbishments […]
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charities / Mid Norfolk Railway / Then & Now February 15, 2011
READ MOREMID-NORFOLK RAILWAY PRESERVATION TRUST The Wymondham-Dereham-North Elmham-County School Line NEWS FROM THE MNR :- MNR is pleased to announce that Class 37 locomotive No. 37219, named “Shirley Ann Smith“, is diagrammed to take a full role in the Mixed Traffic Gala to be held on the MNR, between Friday 18th and Sunday 20th February. Other […]
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charities / Mid Norfolk Railway / Then & Now February 10, 2011
READ MOREMNR MIXED TRAFFIC GALA 18th to 20th February 2011 A two train service will be in operation using the new Thuxton passing loop. The intention is to provide a mixture of passenger and freight trains. The timetable [see website] shows 4 or 5 [Saturday] “All Stations” stopping passenger trains ex Dereham where photographers can dismount, […]
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charities / Mid Norfolk Railway / Then & Now January 13, 2011
READ MOREMID-NORFOLK RAILWAY PRESERVATION TRUST The Wymondham-Dereham-North Elmham-County School Line PROGRAMME OF SPECIAL EVENTS FOR 2011 Click here for a web page listing our extensive programme. This year sees at least another 3 “FIRSTS”! :- * The visit of the ex-GWR locomotive King Edward II during June&July. * Running KE II in parallel with 0-6-0 Pannier […]
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charities / Christmas / Events in Norfolk and Suffolk / Mid Norfolk Railway / Then & Now December 9, 2010
READ MOREMID-NORFOLK RAILWAY PRESERVATION TRUST The Wymondham-Dereham-North Elmham-County School Line SANTA’s COMING TO THE MID NORFOLK RAILWAY BOOK NOW! ANNOUNCING THE ARRIVAL OF SANTA ON THE MNR 2010 :- Each Weekend from Saturday 4th December through to Sunday 19th December, and also on Thursday 23rd and Friday 24th December, SANTA will be travelling between Dereham and […]
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charities / Events in Norfolk and Suffolk / Mid Norfolk Railway / Then & Now November 4, 2010
READ MOREMID-NORFOLK RAILWAY PRESERVATION TRUST The Wymondham-Dereham-North Elmham-County School Line KING EDWARD II TO MAKE A REGAL VISIT Mid Norfolk Railway wishes to confirm recent reports in the Railway Press that it has been speaking with representatives of the Great Western Society (GWS) about their locomotive King Edward II [KEII] being used on the MNR’s service […]
