East Anglia - # - nick86235's Photos

I have always had a very strong attachment to the counties of East Anglia, my mum's side of the family can trace their ancestry back 200 plus years to Sheringham in North Norfolk, where my great grandfather x 12, John Shinkfield, was the blacksmith and is buried in the churchyard of what is now the parish church of Upper Sheringham. The family probably originated in the Netherlands, moving to Norfolk at some time in the sixteenth or seventeenth century, possibly for religious reasons.

Consequently I probably take more pictures of the railways of East Angllia than anywhere else. This gallery brings them all together.

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nick86235 > May 13th 1996. A lovely day in East Anglia, 58029 takinga turn round the Ely Loop on the Middleton Towers to Barnby Dun sand train. The loop was in the process of being relaid and singled. Incidentally it still remains a one way loop, that signal awaiting commissioning in the background is still there and still awaiting commissioning in 2012!

nick86235 > May 13th 1996 and the first of two 60 hauled train across the fens, this is the MWF Bishops Stortford to Croft, passng Turves.

nick86235 > And this was the second, another thrice weekly service, from Ely to Peak Forest

nick86235 > On the 27th July the combined 06:49 from Lverpool Lime Street and 08:35 from Birmingham New Street, a four unit eight car class 158, passing santon Downham en-route to Great Yarmouth.

nick86235 > The 07:49 Liverpool Lime Street to Great Yarmouth approaching Thetford. Today the box and signals are living on borrowed time, before the summer is out they will have gone.

nick86235 > 9th August; Brandon and an eastbound 158 on the 07:06 Birmingham New Street to Norwich

nick86235 > The signalling infrastructure on the Ely to Norwich line is about to change forever, back in 1997 change was still a long way off. The 06:49 Liverpool Lime Street/08:35 Birmingham New Street to Great Yarmouth service speeding across the A1065 crossing

nick86235 > December 5th, a cold day in the fens as a NSE liveried 365 approaches Ely North Junction on a train from King's Lynn.

nick86235 > By mid morning a high veil of cloud had obscured the sun. I recall it was bone numblingly cold. At March 58010 is on the 6M12 MWF Bishop's Stortford to Croft. Not sure what the 37 was doing.

nick86235 > 58s were a very common sight in the fenland at that time. 58025 on the 6M12 Bishop's Stortford to Croft passing Turves.

nick86235 > The 6E77 wagonload service from Ely to Healey Mills passing March on February 13th carrying, IIRC, East Anglian beetroot bound for Baxter's the Scottish soup maker.

nick86235 > 26th February and a meeting in Felixstowe gave me the opportunity to get this picture of EWS 56109 leased to Freightliner on the 4L89 from Crewe Basford Hall. Freightliners tired old 47s had trouble lifting maximum load trains out of Felixstowe necessitating double heading. The 56 had that much more oomph.

May 13th 1996. A lovely day in East Anglia, 58029 takinga turn round the Ely Loop on the Middleton Towers to Barnby Dun sand train. The loop was in the process of being relaid and singled. Incidentally it still remains a one way loop, that signal awaiting commissioning in the background is still there and still awaiting commissioning in 2012!