Video from a few hours at Ely railway station (Cambridgeshire, England) in April 2024, covering freight, track inspection and a few of the passenger trains. Freight hauled by class 60 and 66 diesel locomotives and the inspection train by a pair of (60-plus year old) class 37. Passenger trains were class 158 & 170 diesel, 387 & 700 electric and 755 bi-mode (electric/diesel) multiple units.
A total of 8 freight, 1 inspection and about 38 passenger trains passed through Ely in the 3.5 hours covered by the video (but only a few of the passenger trains feature in the video).
The PLPR (Plain Line Pattern Recognition) Inspection Train was on an 11 hour journey around half of East Anglia, from Cambridge via Ely, Kings Lynn, Ely, Ipswich, Norwich, Ipswich, Colchester, Ipswich, Felixstowe, Ipswich, Mistley, Ipswich and Ely to March.
CHAPTERS
00:00 - 170397 on 1N59 Stansted Airport to Birmingham
00:29 - 60055 'Thomas Barnardo' running around its train
01:16 - 700059 on 1T36 London Kings Cross to Ely
01:31 - 60055 on 6Z84 Brandon to Kings Lynn
02:21 - 66747 'Made in Sheffield' on 4L13 Hams Hall to Felixstowe
03:18 - 66716 'Locomotive & Carriage Institution' on 4E20 Felixstowe to Masborough N&W
04:25 - 170508 on 1L11 Liverpool to Norwich
04:47 - 755417 on 1K78 Stansted Airport to Norwich
05:18 - 66302 on 4L11 Masborough N&W to Felixstowe
05:52 - 37607 (front) and 37610 (rear) on 1Q99 PLPR Inspection Train heading to Kings Lynn
06:32 - 66568 on 4E56 Felixstowe to Doncaster
08:10 - 66761 'Wensleydale Railway Association' on 4E43 Felixstowe to Doncaster
09:35 - 37610 (front) and 37607 (rear) on 1Q99 PLPR Inspection Train heading to Ipswich, Norwich, Colchester, Felixstowe, Mistley and March
12 июл 2024
