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15th April 1989

Set: 77

The Branch Line Society "Orwell Docker" railtour used two 2-car class 101s for a jaunt around East Anglia on 15 April 1989. The first freight branch visited was the the lengthy single track line from Chesterton Junction to Fen Drayton. Extensive gravel pits around Fen Drayton owned by ARC Ltd provided enough railbourne freight to warrant retaining this 11 mile stub of the former Great Eastern Railway St.Ives branch. Aggregate traffic from the gravel pits ceased in May 1992 and the line was mothballed with a view to reinstating a passenger service for Cambridge's growing commuter belt but this fell through, Cambridgeshire Country Council opting for a guided bus way on the track bed. The flooded gravel pits are now an RSPB nature reserve for water foul and wild bird and the railway is just history. Set 77 51177+54351 & set 01 54405+51207 sit at the lines physical end with the far unit beside the buffer stops where Holywell Ferry LC used to be. Adrian Nicholls.

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