Recent content by Gerardtcc

Departures from Wisbech on weekdays and Saturdays are generally 05 and 30 in both directons. This applies from 10.05 until at least 17.05

Thanks for that, I would imagine there may have been Summer Saturday trains to Bridlington or Scarborough which travelled this way until a year or so before closure to relieve congestion on the alternative routes and this would have coincided with the transition from steam to diesel, so I...

Do you know if diesel locomotives travelled this way on specials / Summer Saturday trains before the line closed ?

Hi, I would be interested and could collect from Peterborough as I live about 25 miles from there. My email is [email protected] Regards, Gerard

Oh Dear ! I got that wrong, my friend 'The Timelord' says : "Cambridge to Liverpool Street or vice versa via the GN was a common Sunday diversion during the period when there were no through trains CBG-KGX 1978-88 , though only occasionally also via Hertford North. It is something I have done...

Being old there are quite a few. Do Minehead and Watchet in 1970 count when they were BR rather than WSR ? Locally I can claim to Wisbech East and Peterborough East and I did get a lift from one end of the platform to the other on a Gloucester RCW dmu at Hunstanton a few months before it closed...

Think it's more likely to be an error. On Sundays in the 80s King's Lynn trains were regularly diverted into King's Cross via Shepreth Branch & Hitchin because of engineering work, they often took the Hertford Loop too to avoid ECML congestion, but I can't recall them ever regaining a route into...