Roughing it on the tramway in 1956

9.9.1956 Both pics copyright Mike Morant Collection

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Just five weeks after I was born, on 9 September 1956, the RCTS Fensman No 2 tour visited the Wisbech and Upwell tramway, the trip being made in open wagons behind loco 11102.

These pics capture the atmosphere of both the line and the experience of a trip along the line in the most basic of accomodation!

derby 1956

ED7 (copyright Rail Thing)

(41535 copyright Rail Thing)

The Rail Thing is still busy buying up negatives of a wide range of railway items. These two were both taken in the year I was born, in Derby. Eventually the aim is that we will provide a full service for railway revival and heritage projects, and that quality photographic prints of all these subjects will be available.