18th December - Snow Day!


16210 heads down Elm High Road on the 1005 from Wisbech to Chatteris. Photo by Rob Brooks.


The overnight snowfall, like everywhere else in the country had a effect on the X9 today, although services at the Wisbech end were reasonably unaffected, they were only going as far as Chatteris, with 16210 and 16218 running the services.

Co-incidentaly these were the only two i saw on Thursday!

This is what the service looked like as of 1300hrs this afternoon:
16210 - R560DRP:
0640 Long Sutton - Wisbech
0705 Wisbech - Chatteris
0805 Chatteris - Wisbech
1005 Wisbech - Chatteris
1105 Chatteris - Wisbech
1305 Wisbech - Chatteris
1405 Chatteris - Wisbech
1605 Wisbech - Chatteris
1710 Chatteris - Wisbech
1810 Wisbech - Long Sutton

16218 - R568DRP
0540 Long Sutton - Wisbech
0605 Wisbech - Chatteris
0705 Chatteris - Wisbech
0905 Wisbech - Chatteris
1005 Chatteris - Wisbech
1205 Wisbech - Chatteris
1305 Chatteris - Wisbech
1505 Wisbech - Chatteris
1610 Chatteris - Wisbech
1715 Wisbech - Chatteris
1815 Chatters - Wisbech
1910 Wisbech - Long Sutton

This is how things stand at the Wisbech end providing they`re still running between Wisbech and Chatteris.

At the other end of the scale are:
33396 - R356LER 1330 Wisbech - Peterborough 36
33302 - V675FPO Wisbech - Long Sutton day 39s
33312 - AE56MDN 1330 Peterborough - Wisbech 36

3 sightings from yesterday were:

16213 - R563DRP 1605 Wisbech - Cambridge
16218 - R568DRP 1440 Cambridge - Wisbech
16210 - R560DRP 1640 Cambridge - Wisbech

Thats all for now, Merry Christmas & A Happy New year to readers.

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