on this day 70013 olivr cromwell made history by becoming the first engine and opening to cross sheringhams new level crossing connecting the north norfolk railway once more
video can be found here http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n9YtZl7Y-AI

starting on the 4th of march with the loco convoy with 47826 bringing in visitors 31128 D168 and 20048, we move onto the saturday when we went linesiding al day, then onto sunday for a morning of lineside and then on monday 47826 took the visitors home

March started off very well with 2 67s in the yard at peterborough and also a very rare sighting of 57301 with 2 scottish barrier coaches through peterborough for ferme park then i got some 90s 2 37s and a network rail 150 at norwich

today i made my first visit up to manchester/bury in well over 2 years to go to the east lancashire railway's winter steam gala featuring 70013 oliver cromwell, 30777 sir lamiel (both visiting from the NRM/GCR/5305asc, 71000 duke of gloucester, 44871, 47324 and no.32 gothenburg (which i got to drive up and down a siding at rawtenstall
a good time was had by me and despite missing a connection on the return home and missing a tram due to some jobsworth at manchester piccadilly i had a fantastic day out

today as part of the last full day of having mates over in half term me, tom (the other GEG admin) and a couple other members traveled down for a rare appearance at this bridge
thanks to all the GEG team for a great day out
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this album contains 67024 pulling mk4 set for thunderbird training purposes a 153 at peterborough going to tysely, 66844 in ex advenza livery, normal workings and more to follow hence

once again i travelled up to the great central for another winter steam gala this years theme was based on the lms and in particular lostock hall one of the final 3 steam sheds of the 1960s in action were visitors 44767 george stephenson, 45231 sherward forester, 5690 leander and 42968 and of the home fleet 70013, 47406 (making it's preservation debut) 48305 (maskarading as 48746 the last 8F based at lostock hall) and 78019 acting as the hot spare

after having first half january off for a well deserved break from trains i return with these images. first i went a colas class 66 (no photo due to it going on the wrong line) then mid week going down to see a mate who was visiting from anglia then another visit on the 27th to see the colas flyash again this time pulled by 2 47s (47727 & 47739) (this gallery might be updated on the 31st if i get any photos on the 30th before and after my visit to another line (not to reveal anything just yet)

on the final day of the year i did not expect to hear info that 3 DRS locos would be heading through peterborough so i popped down to see them. on my travels i also saw the nene valley railway's last 2 services of the year hauled by the popular visitor no. 44422

my 3rd and final anglia day ranger of 2009 started at peterborough where i saw 60007 sir nigel gresley, i then moved over to waterbeach to see 60019 bittern via a pause at ely, after a stop at ely's tesco we then moved over to norwich for a bash on the 90s to ipswich, had 90014 norwich - ipswich and 90015 ipswich - norwich. i had a glimpse (but no photo oppertunities for a class 70 no. 70001, then after a short wait bittern returned into norwich platform ready to take the punters home.

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7th dec i went out for the NMT at crownlakes then on the 8th i started at peterborough (like i do) then moved onto march to see tangmere being serviced and turned, i then moved onto ely to see it arrive and depart to take passengers home to london victoria.
unfortunately this didn't turn out as planned due to some idiodity getting the engine turned resulting in a delay which built up to nearly 50 minutes and also because of the mass audience at ely.
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well... what a fantastic day despite missing the 325s, not having the money to go see 1001 and also missing nvr's santa specials i had a lovely day out photing in the glorious winter sunlight out of the possible specials and extras there were today i was able to see D1015 twice as is the same with 2 of those horrible wcrc 47s

a rather fantastic day as nopt only did i get to see the 2 tours i wanted to see i got the added bonuses of seeing a first great western class 57 and a class 325. appolagies for some poor photo quality i must reall replace the digimax A40

came down to accompany my mate tom for a little while and luckily both ECMl RHTTs were sitting in the yard meaning i finally got the ECML RHTT this year also seen is a 158 and some sheds

today i met up with steven frazer for the first time and we decided a visit to grantham was in order, after a few hours there we then came back to peterborough to get the freights and the 92

well despite the weather, having the main camera in the wrong mode at waterbeach and the signal failier on the return from cromer a good day was had by me, getting in the cab at cromer kinda made up for the error at waterbeach but nothing could make up for the signal failier and because of that the cancelation of the photo shoot at norwich. included in this gallery are some of the best (yes some i couldn't decide out of them all) photos i took on the day.

with thanks to jason for the company at waterbeach

after the disapointment of northallerton me and the yrf crew returned to york and after seeing our HST leave left for dringhouse and after that returned to york in hope of seeing the return of the 90 which was sadly routed via the avoiding line

has to be one of the smallest collections i've ever got from a station with the most awful staff in britain who after seeing the GCs and 1 nxec service kicked my posse off the station meaning we missed such rarities like the NMT and a class 90 halued railtour. so may i express my disgrace to the staff who work at northallerton and a bunch of 3 jerks who were allowed to stay on the platform and boasted about what they photted. just how do they sleep at night???

as a little surprise and a nice way to end the month i make a short walk to the fletton loop to see a class 14 working in conjunction with engineering

during my short break to anglia i went down to colchester for RHTTs and the buffer puffer

A few shots at peterborough station taken while waiting for some railtours. was a nice surprise to see another thunderbird rescue.

in my opinion. not the best event in the world and rather disapointing they didn't have a steam gala

after the delight of the winter steam gala in january i returned to the great central for the autumn steam gala when they team up with steam railway to make an epic line up and this year was no different, most of the engine classes with the exception of sir lamiel ran on the GCR at some point in their lives and the railway's double track and atmosphere made a rather stronge feel for the 1950s
FANTASTIC!

i again went down to this brilliant line for another awsome gala. despite the late running, they used a diesel and the fact they blocked sheringham station (again!)