News Items

2nd September: Mike Urry was interviewed on Radio Norfolk Click Here for the show (fast forward to 1hr 32mins)

2nd August: The Steam Rally had over 2500 people atending over the weekend. Its was a wonderful sight with all the Traction Engines working some even running the wood saw. The Planks were excellent playing in the marquee on saturday night. (Pictures will be on soon)

29th June: Our 2nd Steam Rally is approaching fast (30th & 31st July) we still need volunteers over the weekend to help out on various jobs. we have confirmed, 12 Large Traction Engines, 9 Scale Traction Engines, 17 Stationary Engines, 12 Classic Cars, 4 Commercial Vehicles, 7 Tractors, 2 Living Vans, Trade Stands, Model Railways and loads more, so if you do not fancy volunteering come along and have some fun.

Also in the evening on Saturday we will be having a Disco from 5pm, and then a Live Band "The Planks" will be playing from about 7pm ish till late, FREE Entry to the site after 5pm, and FREE entry to Disco and the Bank playing.

1st June: All the track has now been relaid, and looks great - thanks to all the volunteers that helped.

15th May: As some of you may know we have now extended our track to the near edge of our boundaries, by another 300', the track now needs to be relaid with concrete sleepers and reclipped, so hopefully should be all back down in a couple of weeks.

2nd May: The Bishop of Norwich had a Driver Experience on Annie today and throughly enjoyed himself.
He wrote to us afterwards:

Dear Michael, Mike and Richard,
Thank you so much for arranging such a splendid visit to the Whitwell and Reepham railway yesterday. As you may have gathered, I thoroughly enjoyed myself and loved every minute of it. Malcolm also had a wonderful birthday treat so we returned very content.
It is amazing, Mike, to see what you and your team of happy volunteers have achieved in such a short space of time. I can hardly imagine just how much work has gone into it all and it is wonderful to see the station coming to life again. We were short-sighted all those years ago closing so many branch lines but I suppose we thought it was progress.
Many thanks to you all and my next journey on an electrified train to London will seem even duller as a result.
Yours ever.
The Rt Revd Graham James - Lord Bishop of Norwich

23 April: Cheese and wine had 25 people attend, sampling 29 red wines and 5 cheeses, was a wonderful day (that I can remember of it!)

17th April: Our first 1940's day went down really well, we had over 30 people in period dress and 40's stalls in the Marquee, Spam and Corned Beef sandwiches were also available, some great period vehicles turned up as well.40s

12th April 2011: We are starting to get more people send in there pictures for the 2011 competition, the prize has now been increased to £100, so come on send in your picture NOW.

10th April: At last the SECR van is pulled out of the engine shed with its new paint job and lettering installed.

27th March: First time use of our new points.

25th March:  A New section has been added to the menus on the left "History" this shows the history of the station, and will be further expanded later in the year.

23rd March: The 'Pictures and Videos' - Rolling Stock area has been enhanced and more pictures uploaded with a brief history on each piece of rollong stock we have.

22nd March: First entry recieved in the 2011 competition, you can send us your picture and try to win £25, or you can look at them all here.

21st March: The New points have been installed and commissioned by our resident P-Way team: Chris, Keith and Richard - a brilliant job was done by all involved. The point! (no pun intended) of these is to allow us to put our refurbished rolling stock nearer the fence so that members and the public may see them better.

17th March: Our cheese and wine day/evening is looming, book now to recieve a £2.50 discount off each ticket (pre booking get the ticket for £10 - On the day/evening price is £12.50) Its going to be a great tasting with over 15 wines to choose from and lovely fresh frensh bread and some cheeses and buscuits. Come along and join us for a great way to experience wines. Booking form is available HERE This takes place on the 23rd of April (A Saturday - so you can recover on the Sunday!)

16th March: The 'Pictures and Videos' - Engines section has now been changed this allows us to put the restoration work on engines in their own section - have a look, it will be expanded to the rolling stock sections as well over the next few weeks.

5 & 6th March: Our Birthday and beer festival went well, we saw quite a few of our members and had quite nice weather although it got a bit cold in the evenings, thanks to all who came and tried a beer - Or Two!!

4th March: Our new bar is installed in the Marquee, this will allow our 5th beer festival to take place this weekend, so come along and sample some of the 15 wonderful ales.

17th January: Since the Station was built, there has never been electricity installed to the site, we are pleased to announce that with the help from Biffa with their Biffaward scheme we now have Electricity installed - this means we can now remove the generator (many thanks to Paul Hipperson fo rthe loan of the generator over the 2 years) and people can sit outside when it gets warmer and listen to the lovely birds instead of the generator drowning everything out, inside this means we can install more multimedia devices to allow us to show people many more historical items. We must also thank Whitwell Hall for allowing us to use their land to put the cable in.

News from 2010 can be seen by clicking HERE.