the demise of fotopic didn't dampen my spirit and definately didn't stop me from going to the North Norfolk Railway's spring steam gala.
on the cards this year were 4/5 visiting locos 3717 City of Truro from the NRM/GWSR, GWR 57XX pannier tank L99 (7715) from the buckinghamshire railway centre, J72 69023 from NELPG/NYMR, LMS Jinty 47406 from the Great Central Railway and 5619 from the Telford Steam Railway which is still on long term hire to the NNR. from the home fleet were J15 no. 65462 and on standby 1982 Ring Haw. even before i arrived at the line they'd already not had the best of starts, sheringham signal man started 20 minutes late somehow getting lost between weybourne and sheringham, during the day the timetable was slowly making up time despite a minor issue adding L99 to 3717's train to sheringham from weybourne. however by the they'd got down to atleast 5 minutes late the pannier tank had broken down and replaced by thunderbird Ring Haw, by now the railway was running half an hour behind schedule resulting in me missing a connection at sheringham in the desperate attempt to make up time meaning the engine i rode the most was the J15. by the end of my visit the line was fortunate to only be 20 minutes behind schedule.
besides the lateness and the pannier tank breaking down i had a brilliant time at the NNR and managed to get behing 7 steam engines. not bad for a day's work
on the cards this year were 4/5 visiting locos 3717 City of Truro from the NRM/GWSR, GWR 57XX pannier tank L99 (7715) from the buckinghamshire railway centre, J72 69023 from NELPG/NYMR, LMS Jinty 47406 from the Great Central Railway and 5619 from the Telford Steam Railway which is still on long term hire to the NNR. from the home fleet were J15 no. 65462 and on standby 1982 Ring Haw. even before i arrived at the line they'd already not had the best of starts, sheringham signal man started 20 minutes late somehow getting lost between weybourne and sheringham, during the day the timetable was slowly making up time despite a minor issue adding L99 to 3717's train to sheringham from weybourne. however by the they'd got down to atleast 5 minutes late the pannier tank had broken down and replaced by thunderbird Ring Haw, by now the railway was running half an hour behind schedule resulting in me missing a connection at sheringham in the desperate attempt to make up time meaning the engine i rode the most was the J15. by the end of my visit the line was fortunate to only be 20 minutes behind schedule.
besides the lateness and the pannier tank breaking down i had a brilliant time at the NNR and managed to get behing 7 steam engines. not bad for a day's work
