Special Call Sign GB1MWS will be on the air 26th & 27th September to celebrate the anniversary of the first railway passenger service from Darlington to Stockton 27th September 1825.
QTH is from the garden of one of the railway cottages adjacent to what remains of Murrow West Station on the Great Northern & Great Eastern Railway line that ran from the Fenland town of March in Cambridgeshire to Spalding in Lincolnshire.
GB1MWS is run by members of M1PRC the Peterborough And District Amateur Radio Club. GB1MWS is managed by M7TTU.
Railways On The Air is coordinated by Bishop Auckland Amateur Radio Club.
More information about this special event station can be found here : Railways On The Air (ROTA) – GB1MWS