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It’s that time again, an update from us at Peterborough. Continue reading →

Long live the King, as we work hard to keep our fleet alive and well. Continue reading →

Update from our latest session on Sunday 23rd April as we prepare to open the Freight Museum. Continue reading →

Our look back of the first 3 months of 2023 as we prepared for what will hopefully be some good Spring/Summer events. Continue reading →

Our apologies for the delay, but here is the summary of the last quarter of 2022 Continue reading →

Q3 kicked off with wagons and doughnuts/cake as the first working session also happened to be Tim’s birthday. Our second working session was a visit to the Buckinghamshire Railway Centre to see their impressive collection of wagons. As this turned … Continue reading →

Following on from Q1, work continued repainting the hoppers and preparing the running rake for our first Freight Driving Experience Day of 2022 in April. After a long evening oiling and checking the rake, we had a successful freight day … Continue reading →

Over the last year or so, the Wagon Group have been considering how we wanted to take things forward in the long term, and after some discussion the boards of NVR and RailWorld were approached about the possibility of relocating … Continue reading →

The new year kicked off with one of our popular Freight Driving Experiences with traction provided by Ian Riley’s impressive LMS Black 5 44871. Once again feedback shows this product is very popular with the participants and provides great value … Continue reading →

October & November saw more work on the refurbishment of the 5-plank open wagons culminating in their re-entry to traffic in early December. This brings the demonstration freight rake back up to full strength of four opens, four vans, four … Continue reading →

July kicked off with another Freight Driving Experience. Originally planned to be ‘Western’ with GWR Pannier 6430, plans had to be changed when Llangollen recalled the loco due to a steam shortage and our own 92 Squadron stood in and … Continue reading →

Nene Valley Railway has been used as a location for over 150 different film or TV productions including feature films, dramas, documentaries, adverts and even music videos (see Filming at NVR). While many of these feature trains being used for … Continue reading →