The Minor Railways of East Anglia by Rob Shorland-Ball

Author:Rob Shorland-Ball
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: TRANSPORTATION / Railroads / General
Publisher: Pen and Sword/Pen and Sword Transport
Published: 2020-10-19T00:00:00+00:00

Fig 70: An apparently well-equipped terminus station, including a brick-built Engine Shed which housed the one engine in steam that worked the Light Railway. Thaxted was a sub-shed of Cambridge Shed and the usual practice was to change the engine each weekend. The out going engine went north to Cambridge on Saturday evening and the replacement arrived on Monday morning. There were no Sunday services.

Curiously, for a surviving historic railway relatively near to London, few railway enthusiasts visited or recorded a visit. One of the few reports to appear in the contemporary railway press was in the March 1951 issue of the Railway Observer:

'… on 10 February 1951, J68 No.8645 was working the branch with coaches E61471 and E62450. A third coach – E62461 – was on standby. The three coaches were bogie corridors which had arrived on the branch only a few years previously; they were ex-World War One ambulance coaches – one a ward car, one a pharmacy car and the other an “infectious” car. For use on the Thaxted branch they were specially fitted with steps which was necessary because of the low height of the branch platforms.'

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