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 return journey of an earlier video. 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 Haverhilll
The video also includes a brief look at each station as we drive down the route, before completing this leg of the journey at Chappel, finishing with a view of the viaduct.
Stations visited:
00:00 Haverhill
03:50 Branch to Haverhill South
07:35 Birdbrook
14:15 Yeldham
19:00 Current location of the Colne Valley railway, Preserved railway
20:45 Sible & Castle Hedingham
26:50 Halstead
32:00 Earls Colne
35:50 White Colne
40:35 Chappel & Wakes Colne