Wells and Fakenham Railway






Locations along the line

These locations are along the line.

The old station at Wells-next-the-Sea in June 2023. The last passenger service left on 5th October 1964 with the final goods train four weeks later. ...
Mark Bartlett 17/06/2023
Wells-next-the-Sea once had a goods branch that curved away east then north from the station (closed 1964) to serve coasters and barges visiting the ...
Mark Dufton 15/01/1978
The former station at Wells-next-the-Sea, Norfolk, closed in 1964. ...
Colin Alexander 01/08/2010
This is the platform side of the former Wells next the Sea station on 15th January 1978, around 13 years after closure. The concrete buffer stop on ...
Mark Dufton 15/01/1978
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'Weasel', a diesel powered steam tram replica, sits outside the engine shed at Wells on Sea, northern terminus of the Wells and Walsingham Light ...
Mark Bartlett 17/06/2023
Looking south along the platform at Wells on Sea, the narrow gauge terminus that is just outside Wells, on 17th June 2023. The narrow gauge line runs ...
Mark Bartlett 17/06/2023
Quirky use of an old carriage body on the Wells on Sea platform of the W&WLR. The first section is open to the elements on one side as a sort of ...
Mark Bartlett 17/06/2023
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A roadside view of Fakenham East station on 11th October 1980, shortly after its final closure to all traffic. Standing in as a bus depot after loss ...
Mark Dufton 11/10/1980
On Saturday 21st April 1979, Class 105 DMUs returned to Fakenham East station for one last day after an absence of almost 15 years. The train was a ...
Mark Dufton 21/04/1979
Saturday April 21st 1979 was the last time a passenger train reached the former Great Eastern station at Fakenham before final closure of the line in ...
Mark Dufton 21/04/1979
The end for Fakenham East station in October 1980. Since passenger services ceased in 1964 Fakenham had been the terminus of a freight spur from ...
Mark Dufton 11/10/1980
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