The Wisbech & Upwell Tramway

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.

Thanks for posting that.

Those were the days !

where can I find a wishbech and upwell bogie coach for trainz? I want to remake the titfield thunderbolt consist.

The video is gone........

rjhowie said:

The video is gone........

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There is an Anglian TV B&W film from 1961 at the East Anglian Film Archive http://www.eafa.org.uk/catalogue/139644

John McGregor presents a profile of the Wisbech and Upwell Tramway, where the 'Grower's Special' trundles for almost eight miles on a single-track railway line, between Wisbech and Upwell, carrying agricultural produce to the mainline.

Departing from Wisbech, passing through fenland and small villages, the train arrives at Upwell, where McGregor interviews driver Charles Randle and guard Arthur Downes. The pair discuss their careers on the railway and the flexibility of their timetable. With the produce - consisting mostly of strawberries - loaded, the train departs on its return journey, pulling up to fifty wagons at speed and delivering in time for the freight expresses to the morning markets.

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Cannot link directly to the movie on the page.

What an excellent piece of film. Shame the GER C53 (J70) tram engines had gone by then.