Wisbech and Upwell Tramway
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The Wisbech and Upwell Tramway was a rural standard gauge tramway in East Anglia. It was built by the Great Eastern Railway between Wisbech, Isle of Ely, Cambridgeshire, and Upwell, now in Norfolk, to
A train on the Wisbech and Upwell Tramway, pulled by steam tram locomotive 68225, running without sideplates.
Street name The Tramway
The former office of the Outwell Village depot
British Rail Class 04
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The British Rail Class 04 is a 0-6-0 diesel-mechanical shunting locomotive class, built between 1952 and 1962 and was the basis for the later Class 03 built in the British Railways workshops.
Wisbech and Upwell Tramway
…by two LNER Class Y10 Sentinel geared steam locomotives, prior to them moving to the Yarmouth Quay line. From 1952, the line was worked by modified Drewry 0-6-0DM (Class 04) diesel shunters, again fitted with sideplates. It thus became the first line in Britain to be wholly worked by diesel locomotives. The line did not…
Preserved Class 04 D2246 at Buckfastleigh on South Devon Railway in 2013.
11226 at Hither Green Depot in 1960.
Drewry 11103 at Mangapps 26 08 2024
Williton North Yard D2205