A gem from the past with this short B&W documentary filmed in 1961 for Anglia TV's nightly news magazine 'About Anglia'.
(Anglia TV is the regional TV channel for Eastern England).
* On the video is one of two BR Class 04 Drewry locomotives that were allocated to Wisbech Tram Depot (alongside Wisbech East Station) in 1952 replacing the steam tram engines previously used since 1883, the year of the tramway's opening, and which regularly worked the W&U until its closure in May 1966. The Wisbech & Upwell Tramway was the very first railway line in Britain to see the introduction of Diesel locomotives long before the British Railways modernisation plan of 1955. At the end of the video clip is the 'Growers special' slowing passing through Wisbech East Station, with its original G.E.R platform gas lamps.
(Anglia TV is the regional TV channel for Eastern England).
* On the video is one of two BR Class 04 Drewry locomotives that were allocated to Wisbech Tram Depot (alongside Wisbech East Station) in 1952 replacing the steam tram engines previously used since 1883, the year of the tramway's opening, and which regularly worked the W&U until its closure in May 1966. The Wisbech & Upwell Tramway was the very first railway line in Britain to see the introduction of Diesel locomotives long before the British Railways modernisation plan of 1955. At the end of the video clip is the 'Growers special' slowing passing through Wisbech East Station, with its original G.E.R platform gas lamps.
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