6th June 2008	73204 arrives at Wansford Class 73, 73204 arrived at the Nene Valley Railway just before 16:30 on Friday 6th June. The loco is due to take part in a special event for First GBRf, owners of 73204, on Saturday before departing by road. Click on the image for more details.
7th May 2008	73050 boiler lifted back into its chassis The Nene Valley Railway's flagship locomotive, Standard Class 5MT No. 73050 City of Peterborough, took a major step towards being able to be steamed again when its 25-tonne boiler and ashpan were craned onto the locomotive's frames at Wansford on 7th May. Click on the image for more details.
6th May 2008	Launch of Yarwell Travelling Post Office Apparatus The last few weeks have seen frantic activity to ensure that the new Travelling Post Office lineside apparatus at Yarwell cutting is complete for its formal opening on Friday 9th May and the subsequent celebrations over the weekend of 10th and 11th May. Click on the image for more details.
30th April 2008	53809 is staying for the Bank Holiday 53809, which was visiting for the 1960's weekend has had its visit extended by another week, so will be in operation this coming Bank Holiday weekend (3rd to 5th May).
14th April 2008	New OO Wagon released The latest OO gauge has just arrived at Wansford. This time it is a grey Peterborough Co-op Society 7 Plank coal wagon. Click on the image for more details.
7th April 2008	New station building opens at Yarwell Junction Friday 4th April saw the official launch of the new Yarwell Junction station. Click on the image for more details.
1st April 2008	73050 is to return to the mainline APRIL FOOL SPOOF 73050 is to return to the mainline under a deal signed between Nene Valley Railway and Ian Riley & Son (E) Ltd. Click on the image for more details.
20th March 2008	Thomas and the Travelling Post Office The NVR have just undertaken a weekend of Thomas running with the Travelling Post Office. The event is the first time this has been undertaken and has proven to be very popular, to the point where all six trains ran to full capacity. The NVR are looking at running another weekend with Thomas on the Travelling Post Office this year, so watch for details in the near future. All Thomas events are listed here and all the dates that Thomas is running on can be found here
19th March 2008	Work starts on moorings at Wansford Work has now started on the moorings at Wansford Station. Click on the image for more details.
10th March 2008	Wemyss Austerity to visit Keith Parkinson reports: Hunslet Austerity, a powerful 0-6-0 saddle tank built to a wartime austerity design that latterly saw service as No. 15 on the industrial Wemyss Private Railway in Fife, Scotland has been booked to come to the Nene Valley Railway and will arrive on Monday 17th March. Owned by Andrew Goodman, No. 15 is a Hunslet-designed Austerity 0-6-0ST, one of 13 subcontracted to Andrew Barclay. One of only three of the Andrew Barclay-built examples to survive, it has just completed an extensive overhaul and very recently passed its boiler examination. The photo shows it hauling a train on the Gloucester & Warwickshire railway on Sunday 30th December 2007, its first weekend in public service.