It’s Christmas at the NYMR! There’s festive jollity aplenty as the railway prepares for the 2019 Santa Season. What started as a bit of good fun is now absolutely crucial depths-of-winter revenue generator for the railway. And to make sure this is the most successful Santa Season ever they’ve added a whole new train, the Northern Lights Express. This spectacular new service - involving 25,000 lights fixed to a moving steam train and its carriages, as well as illuminating sections of the 18 mile track – is an incredible technical and logistical challenge. How will this marriage of Victorian engineering and 21st century come together?

It’s Christmas at the NYMR! There’s festive jollity aplenty as the railway prepares for the 2019 Santa Season. What started as a bit of good fun is now absolutely crucial depths-of-winter revenue generator for the railway. And to make sure this is the most successful Santa Season ever they’ve added a whole new train, the Northern Lights Express. This spectacular new service - involving 25,000 lights fixed to a moving steam train and its carriages, as well as illuminating sections of the 18 mile track – is an incredible technical and logistical challenge. How will this marriage of Victorian engineering and 21st century come together?

It's the annual War Weekend, and the event's centrepiece, a WWII artillery gun, is putting up a fight.

It's the annual War Weekend, and the event's centrepiece, a WWII artillery gun, is putting up a fight.

August Bank Holiday brings sun, and lots of people to the line.

August Bank Holiday brings sun, and lots of people to the line.

At the steam gala, Piglet's beloved 9F has serious competition from visiting engines.

At the steam gala, Piglet's beloved 9F has serious competition from visiting engines.

Piglet tries to succeed where 50 years' worth of repair attempts have failed to try to save the powerful 9F engine.

Piglet tries to succeed where 50 years' worth of repair attempts have failed to try to save the powerful 9F engine.

New loco manager Piglet is once more in the thick of it with engine problems.

New loco manager Piglet is once more in the thick of it with engine problems.