Video showing current progress on recreating the Colne Valley line between Chappel & Wakes Colne and Haverhill , along with the Bury St Edmunds branch from Long Melford, the Stour Valley route to Shelford and the Saffron Walden branch.
This video covers the Chappel & Wakes Colne - Haverhill section. The recreation is centred on the period around 1959 - 1960, just before there were any major curtailments to service, however some sidings had already been removed in the mid 1950s.
The video starts as we load up before leaving Chappel
The video also includes a brief fly around each station as we drive down the route, before completing this leg of the journey at Haverhill.
Stations visited:
00:00 Chappel & Wakes Colne
04:27 White Colne
08:32 Earls Colne
15:14 Halstead
25:18 Sible & Castle Hedingham
29:40 Current location of the Colne Valley railway, Preserved railway
32:10 Yeldham
40:26 Birdbrook
47:16 Branch to Haverhill South
50:55 Haverhill