Norwich > Dereham services - any progress?

[jamesontheroad]

To my surprise, I discovered that the Mid-Norfolk Railway had persuaded EMT to run a handful of roundtrips from Norwich to Dereham via Wymondham last October (news article here).

Given the recent confirmation (discussion here) about the restoration of franchised services to Swanage (and a similar pilot service with a 159), has anything happened since then to develop the idea of a scheduled passenger services going through from Norwich to Dereham? Was this simply a one off, or is anyone serious about developing a permanent service? Or are there too many bureaucratic obstacles?

Given their performance so far, I can't imagine Greater Anglia are particular proactive in pushing an idea like this forward.

 

[northernrailer]

The EMT class 158 was part of our Multiple Matters Gala, and EMT had kindly loaned to a unit to us on the Saturday (158770) and Sunday (158847) - we have a few volunteers who work for EMT so they were able to crew it both days. So it was a one off, have a look on our website for our next Multiple Matters event this year and also other events we are holding, we hare hoping that Greater Anglia may loan us a unit this year along with EMT again.

http://www.mnr.org.uk/calendar/events/

http://www.mnr.org.uk/calendar/events/multiplematters/


This weekend we have the Spring Diesel Gala (Fri 5th - Sun 7th April).

 

[Trainfan344]

The EMT class 158 was part of our Multiple Matters Gala, and EMT had kindly loaned to a unit to us on the Saturday (158770) and Sunday (158847) - we have a few volunteers who work for EMT so they were able to crew it both days. So it was a one off, have a look on our website for our next Multiple Matters event this year and also other events we are holding, we hare hoping that Greater Anglia may loan us a unit this year along with EMT again.

http://www.mnr.org.uk/calendar/events/

http://www.mnr.org.uk/calendar/events/multiplematters/


This weekend we have the Spring Diesel Gala (Fri 5th - Sun 7th April).

Yes, I attended the event on the Saturday, Have you had a chance to ring round other preserved lines to see if they have any Multiple Units they could lend you?

 

[jamesontheroad]

Thanks for the info; will watch out for it.