Nellie a year on

It's now been over a year since Accucraft build Edrig Class "Little Nellie" arrived on the S&NLR, since then the loco is still going strong with only a few minor repairs and and regular maintenance needed during the year. The loco has visited both Derby and Whitwell & Reepham Station also.

Above: "Nellie" poses in front of "Annie" during the Whitwell & Reepham Station Steam Railway

Above: "Nellie" rounds rockery curve with a short passenger in snowy conditions

Above: "Nellie" with a mixed during spring 2010

Above: "Nellie" at the Amber Valley Railway alongside "River Test" in Derby

Another visitor arrives!!

This is a 0-4-0T live steam Anna built by Beck in the mid 1970s, normally based on our twin railway The Dibden Valley Railway the locomotive will be staying on the S&NLR until late October, during its time in Norfolk it is expected to prove a popular loco alongside Little Nellie our resident live steamer and also Whitlingham Lakes which is expected to arrive in the next 2-3 weeks!

Open Day

On Bank Holiday Monday - August we held the annual open day which saw an interesting selection of locos visit us

Above: visiting class 66 with matching hoppers
Above: American steam takes over Waybourne

Above: Nellie thunders into Waybourne

Above: visit scratch build french locomotive on its very first ever run

Above: visiting scratch built metropolitan loco

Whitwell Steam Railway

On the 31 July - 1st August some of our locos visited Whitwell & Reepham Stations 1st Steam Railway, the locos caused alot of interest, with Thomas being very popular...

Below: Nellie posed infront of Whitwells Andrew Barcley steam loco "Annie"

Below: "Nellie" posed on "Annie's" buffer beam

Below: "Nellie" in steam with "Black Beauty"

Below: "Spreewald" also visited

Below: Thomas, Spreewald, Black Beauty and fundenhalls Lyn

Nellies adventure

Last week our live steam locomotive "Little Nellie" visited The Amber Valley Railway - Dibden Valley Railways second railway in Derby, this was Nellies very first visit to another railway away from the S&NLR and its the first time one of our locos have been outside Norfolk during our ownership!!

Above: "Little Nellie" and DVRs "River Test" - the loco will visit us later in the summer subject to repairs

Below: while at the AVR/DVR we was contracted to paint "River Tests" cranks red

This coming weekend 31st July - 1st August "Little Nellie" and a few other S&NLR locos will be visiting the Whitwell & Reepham Railway for their first steam rally event!

Updates

Three locomotives, Spreewald, U43 and V 38-15 all got a run this week for the first time in 2010 and all ran faultlessly

Ahead of its possible visit to Derby next week our live steam locomotive "Little Nellie" has been receiving some attention including having its cranks painted red

Thomas arrives from Sodor!!!!

On Friday 4Th June the famous blue tank engine that is Thomas arrived on the S&NLR! The large scale Thomas range is new for Bachmann in 2010 and other characters so far include Percy, James, Annie & Clarable as well as the troublesome trucks. The locos including Thomas feature moving eyes.

Thomas is an excellent runner and we plan to eventually paint him into a more realistic looking loco.