Class 43 High-Speed Trains at the Mid Norfolk Railway.

Sir Kenneth Grange

17 July 1929 – 21 July 2024

In early 2025, as part of a collaborative venture between the Mid Norfolk Railway and the Romic Group, numerous Class 43 High-Speed units were stored along the Mid Norfolk Railway in anticipation of either export to Mexico via Great Yarmouth Docks or disposal for scrap. Notably, a vintage Great Western Railway set, complemented by four coaches from the Romic Group, was utilized during the Mid Norfolk Railway’s 30th-anniversary weekend festivities.

All photographs depicted below were captured on March 22, 2025.

Dereham

Class 43 HST
Class 43 HST
Class 43 HST
Class 43 HST

Thuxton

Class 43 HST
Class 43 HST

Kimberly Park

Class 43 HST
Class 43 HST

Wymondham Abbey

Class 43 HST
Class 43 HST
Class 43 HST

GWR Sign

Mk3 carriage

Three more units were stored at Dereham that weekend

43027 GWR

43311 East Midlands Railway

43315 East Midlands Railway

43027 Stabled at Dereham

Class 43 HST
Class 43 HST
Class 43 HST

Units 43311-43315 are ex EMR East Midlands Railway power cars that have been neglected compared to the Great Western power cars and have looked to have had many parts removed including lighting systems and the engine unit via the roof on 43315

43311

Class 43 HST
Class 43 HST
Class 43 HST

43315

Class 43 HST
Class 43 HST
Class 43 HST
Class 43 HST
Class 43 HST
Class 43 HST
Class 43 HST

43191 First Great Western Photographed at Kimberley Park sidings.

Class 43 HST

All photographs depicted below were captured on March 22, 2025, at Dereham.

43-191 First Great western

Class 43 HST
Class 43 HST
Class 43 HST
Class 43 HST
Class 43 HST
Class 43 HST

43191 coupling system connected up to a class 47-367

Class 43 HST
Class 43 HST
Class 43 HST

43-174 First Great Western

Class 43 HST
Class 43 HST
Class 43 HST
Class 43 HST
Class 43 HST
Class 43 HST
Class 43 HST

47-367

Class 47 Mid Norfolk Railway
Class 47 Mid Norfolk Railway

Other units that passed through Dereham en route to Great Yarmouth docks for export, which I could not photograph due to a short stop at Dereham and the Mid Norfolk Railways being closed midweek, were numbered.

43160

43238

43319

43312

43162

43194

43153

If anyone has any missing numbers or pictures they would like to add, please feel free to contact me. Full credit will be given to the original contributor.