LNER B1 class 4-6-0 No. 61306 “Mayflower” is back again this Saturday (10/10) hauling The Cathedrals Express from Warminster to Cambridge and Ely and we should be getting to see it twice, and in the day time both times too. “Mayflower” at Milton level crossing According to UKSteam Info it departs Cambridge at 13:22 and […]

46233 “Duchess of Sutherland” is hauling The Christmas White Rose from Cambridge to York and back this Thursday (17/12). Timings on uksteam.info suggest that the train will pass Fen Road level crossing at about 07:45 heading north however at that point it like it will be diesel hauled with 46233 immediately behind it and then […]

LNER B1 class 4-6-0 No. 61306 “Mayflower” is back again this Saturday (10/10) hauling The Cathedrals Express from Warminster to Cambridge and Ely and we should be getting to see it twice, and in the day time both times too. “Mayflower” at Milton level crossing According to UKSteam Info it departs Cambridge at 13:22 and […]

As promised we got The Cathedrals Express through last Saturday but as Ian Blair, who made the effort to go down to take more photos in less clement weather than on its previous visit, discovered “Mayflower” wasn’t hauling the train as promised. Instead it was hauled by a Class 47 diesel “County of Essex”. Ian […]

As promised LNER B1 class 4-6-0 No. 61306 “Mayflower” is back again on Saturday (21/3) hauling The Cathedrals Express from Horsted Keynes on the Bluebell Line to Ely and this time we really are getting to see it twice, and in the day time both times too. “Mayflower” at Milton level crossing on its last […]

We have a new steam train visitor this Sunday, a train called The Easterling hauled by LNER B1 class 4-6-0 No. 61306 “Mayflower” which we don’t think we’ve seen at Milton level crossing before. The train will be composed of ten Mk1/2 carriages with a Class 47 diesel on the back. “Mayflower” as preserved, photo […]

From this weekend until 1st February, Saturday night/Sunday morning East Coast and Great Central passenger services plus engineers’ trains to and from Whitemoor (March) will be diverted past Milton. This will bring some HSTs and class 180s through Milton and unknown freight workings (probably 66s on engineering trains). The Sunday morning ones might offer some […]

For early risers you have one last chance to see a steam hauled train this Thursday morning (18/12) when our old friend LNER A4 class No. 60009 “Union of South Africa” hauls The Christmas White Rose from Cambridge to York and back. No confirmed timings yet but it looks like it’s going to be an […]