North Norfolk Railway 25th June 2019


David Bosher

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<h4><a href='/locations/S/Sheringham_North_Norfolk'>Sheringham (North Norfolk)</a></h4><p><small><a href='/companies/C/Cromer_Branch_Eastern_and_Midlands_Railway'>Cromer Branch (Eastern and Midlands Railway)</a></small></p><p>Sheringham station, North Norfolk Railway, looking towards Weybourne and Holt, on the afternoon of Tuesday, 25th June 2019. Opened in 1887, it closed to BR passengers in 1967 when trains from Norwich thenceforth served a new single platform halt on the opposite side of the level crossing which was abolished (restored in 2010). The station reopened to passengers as the main terminus of the North Norfolk Railway, a.k.a. The Poppy Line, to Weybourne in 1975. The glass canopy and the surviving building on the main arrival and departure platform are its chief feature; there was originally a similar platform and canopy on the opposite platform until demolished by BR. The NNR hopes to rebuild this at some stage in the future, using some original MGNJR cast iron columns and spandrels recovered from the former MGNJR terminus at Yarmouth Beach which was sadly finally demolished in 1986 after serving as a bus station for many years following the closure of the MGN main line in 1959. The 2010 restoration of the level crossing allows some NNR trains to run on from Sheringham over National Rail metals to Cromer from time to time as well as being able to welcome occasional excursion trains from further afield. 1/14</p><p>25/06/2019<br><small><a href='/contributors/David_Bosher'>David Bosher</a></small></p> <h4><a href='/locations/S/Sheringham_North_Norfolk'>Sheringham (North Norfolk)</a></h4><p><small><a href='/companies/C/Cromer_Branch_Eastern_and_Midlands_Railway'>Cromer Branch (Eastern and Midlands Railway)</a></small></p><p>Metro-Cammell Class 101 DMU at Sheringham, waiting to depart with the 13.00 North Norfolk Railway service to Holt, on 25th June 2019. This station was opened by the Eastern & Midlands Railway (that later became part of the Midland & Great Northern Joint Railway) on 16th June 1887 and the heritage line runs for five and a quarter miles along a section of the MGNJR as far as Holt (but not quite as far as the original station which was demolished to make way for the town by-pass). The bulk of the ex-MGNJR closed on 28th February 1959 but Sheringham to Melton Constable stayed open until 6th April 1964 when the service from Norwich and Cromer was cut back to Sheringham. In January 1967, Sheringham station was closed to BR trains and replaced by a single platform halt on the opposite side of the level crossing; the ex-MGNJR station was then leased to the MGNJR Society to eventually become the main station for the North Norfolk Railway. 2/14</p><p>25/06/2019<br><small><a href='/contributors/David_Bosher'>David Bosher</a></small></p> <h4><a href='/locations/W/Weybourne'>Weybourne</a></h4><p><small><a href='/companies/C/Cromer_Branch_Eastern_and_Midlands_Railway'>Cromer Branch (Eastern and Midlands Railway)</a></small></p><p>Weybourne station, seen from a Class 101 DMU arriving with the ex-13.00 North Norfolk Railway service from Sheringham to Holt, on 25th June 2019. The line here opened in 1887 but this station was not opened until 1st July 1901. It closed on 6th April 1964 when the BR passenger service to Melton Constable was cut back to Sheringham. BR's contractors began lifting the track with indecent haste but the MGNJR Association was able to save Weybourne station from demolition and began to restore it and re-laid track although it was not until 13th July 1975 that it was open to the public with the first section of the heritage line as far as Sheringham. Prior to that date, only MGNJR Association members were able to ride on the line. 3/14</p><p>25/06/2019<br><small><a href='/contributors/David_Bosher'>David Bosher</a></small></p> <h4><a href='/locations/W/Weybourne'>Weybourne</a></h4><p><small><a href='/companies/C/Cromer_Branch_Eastern_and_Midlands_Railway'>Cromer Branch (Eastern and Midlands Railway)</a></small></p><p>View through cab of BR Metro-Cammell Class 101 DMU at Weybourne, looking towards Holt, calling with the ex-13.00 North Norfolk Railway service from Sheringham to Holt, on 25th June 2019. 4/14</p><p>25/06/2019<br><small><a href='/contributors/David_Bosher'>David Bosher</a></small></p> <h4><a href='/locations/W/Weybourne'>Weybourne</a></h4><p><small><a href='/companies/C/Cromer_Branch_Eastern_and_Midlands_Railway'>Cromer Branch (Eastern and Midlands Railway)</a></small></p><p>Time for a chat as Metro-Cammell Class 101 DMU waits at Weybourne station, with the ex-13.00 North Norfolk Railway service from Sheringham to Holt on 25th June 2019. The waiting shelter dates from 1987; the original was demolished in 1964 after the line and station closed to BR passenger services. 5/14</p><p>25/06/2019<br><small><a href='/contributors/David_Bosher'>David Bosher</a></small></p> <h4><a href='/locations/H/Holt'>Holt</a></h4><p><small><a href='/companies/C/Cromer_Branch_Eastern_and_Midlands_Railway'>Cromer Branch (Eastern and Midlands Railway)</a></small></p><p>View from Metro-Cammell Class 101 DMU approaching the terminus at Holt with the ex-13.00 North Norfolk Railway service from Sheringham, on 25th June 2019. The Midland Railway signal box, similar to those used on the main MGNJR until its closure in 1959, was moved here from Upper Stone Sidings near Mansfield in Nottinghamshire. 6/14</p><p>25/06/2019<br><small><a href='/contributors/David_Bosher'>David Bosher</a></small></p> <h4><a href='/locations/H/Holt'>Holt</a></h4><p><small><a href='/companies/C/Cromer_Branch_Eastern_and_Midlands_Railway'>Cromer Branch (Eastern and Midlands Railway)</a></small></p><p>British Railways Metro-Cammell Class 101 Diesel-Multiple Unit with the ex-13.00 North Norfolk Railway service from Sheringham just arrived at the terminus at Holt, with two of my friends on the left, on Tuesday, 25th June 2019. Trains were extended here from Kelling Heath Park on 19th March 1989; the station occupies a brand new site as the original station, that was closer to Holt town centre, was demolished after closure in 1964 to make way, surprise surprise, for a road widening scheme. The building is from the former Stalham station on the North Walsham to Yarmouth Beach section of the MGNJR main line that was sadly closed, pre-Beeching, in 1959. 7/14</p><p>25/06/2019<br><small><a href='/contributors/David_Bosher'>David Bosher</a></small></p> <h4><a href='/locations/H/Holt'>Holt</a></h4><p><small><a href='/companies/C/Cromer_Branch_Eastern_and_Midlands_Railway'>Cromer Branch (Eastern and Midlands Railway)</a></small></p><p>Exterior of the North Norfolk Railway station at Holt, opened in 1989, on 25th June 2019. The station is more than a mile from Holt town centre, the original having been demolished for a road widening scheme after closure in 1964. The building at the 1989 station came from Stalham on the Yarmouth Beach to North Walsham section of the M&GNJR, which closed pre-Beeching on 28th February 1959. (There is a short sequence of a train arriving at Stalham in the 1954 colour film 'Conflict of Wings' starring John Gregson and Muriel Pavlow and which was shown on Talking Pictures TV recently.) 8/14</p><p>25/06/2019<br><small><a href='/contributors/David_Bosher'>David Bosher</a></small></p> <h4><a href='/locations/H/Holt'>Holt</a></h4><p><small><a href='/companies/C/Cromer_Branch_Eastern_and_Midlands_Railway'>Cromer Branch (Eastern and Midlands Railway)</a></small></p><p>WD 2-10-0 No. 90775, built by North British in 1943, just arrived at Holt with the ex-13.50 North Norfolk Railway service from Sheringham, on 25th June 2019. This locomotive (originally WD no. 3652) was purchased by the M & GN Society in 2005. In 2009 it was withdrawn for overhaul, which was completed at Weybourne in 2017 following which it was named 'The Royal Norfolk Regiment'. 9/14</p><p>25/06/2019<br><small><a href='/contributors/David_Bosher'>David Bosher</a></small></p> <h4><a href='/locations/W/Weybourne'>Weybourne</a></h4><p><small><a href='/companies/C/Cromer_Branch_Eastern_and_Midlands_Railway'>Cromer Branch (Eastern and Midlands Railway)</a></small></p><p>WD 2-10-0 90775 'The Royal Norfolk Regiment' under the bridge at Weybourne while calling at the station with the ex-14.50 North Norfolk Railway service from Sheringham to Holt, on 25th June 2019. 10/14</p><p>25/06/2019<br><small><a href='/contributors/David_Bosher'>David Bosher</a></small></p> <h4><a href='/locations/W/Weybourne'>Weybourne</a></h4><p><small><a href='/companies/C/Cromer_Branch_Eastern_and_Midlands_Railway'>Cromer Branch (Eastern and Midlands Railway)</a></small></p><p>Weybourne station has often been used by t.v. companies when they need a station scene representing the past. Due to oft-shown repeats, many will remember the episode of 'Dad's Army' from May 1973 when Weybourne temporarily became Walmington-on-Sea. In the 1980s, a few episodes of the comedy series 'Hi-de-Hi', set in a 1950s holiday camp, were filmed here too when the station was temporarily renamed Crimpton-on-Sea. Rather nice to stand where great comedy stars like the late Arthur Lowe, Ruth Madoc and the rest of the casts of these series once acted. 11/14</p><p>25/06/2019<br><small><a href='/contributors/David_Bosher'>David Bosher</a></small></p> <h4><a href='/locations/W/Weybourne'>Weybourne</a></h4><p><small><a href='/companies/C/Cromer_Branch_Eastern_and_Midlands_Railway'>Cromer Branch (Eastern and Midlands Railway)</a></small></p><p>Weybourne station, North Norfolk Railway, looking towards Holt on 25th June 2019. Built in 1900 and opened on 1st July 1901, it was probably the grandest station of all on the now-sadly defunct MGNJR system. The signal box was rescued in 1967 from the original station at Holt, closed in 1964 and now demolished and the waiting shelter was constructed by the NNR in 1987. The station is about a mile south of the seaside village of Weybourne. 12/14</p><p>25/06/2019<br><small><a href='/contributors/David_Bosher'>David Bosher</a></small></p> <h4><a href='/locations/S/Sheringham_North_Norfolk'>Sheringham (North Norfolk)</a></h4><p><small><a href='/companies/C/Cromer_Branch_Eastern_and_Midlands_Railway'>Cromer Branch (Eastern and Midlands Railway)</a></small></p><p>A close-up view of Metro-Cammell Class 101 DMU waiting to depart for Holt (not St. Ives!) from Sheringham with the 13.00 service on 25th June 2019. These units were a common sight on rural lines in East Anglia from the late 1950s to the early 1990s, even though, apart from the Norwich to Cromer and Sheringham line and Great Yarmouth to Reedham, Norfolk had lost all its branch lines by the end of the 1960s. However, Wymondham to Dereham is now preserved as the Mid-Norfolk Railway with an extension to County School in the offing and hopes of eventually reaching Fakenham while, further north, the one time continuation of this line to Wells-Next-The-Sea is now the miniature Wells & Walsingham Light Railway. Further east, the Wroxham to Aylsham section of a line that once extended to the Wells line at County School and which closed to passengers in 1952, long before Beeching, is now the miniature Bure Valley Railway. 13/14</p><p>25/06/2019<br><small><a href='/contributors/David_Bosher'>David Bosher</a></small></p> <h4><a href='/locations/S/Sheringham_North_Norfolk'>Sheringham (North Norfolk)</a></h4><p><small><a href='/companies/C/Cromer_Branch_Eastern_and_Midlands_Railway'>Cromer Branch (Eastern and Midlands Railway)</a></small></p><p>A view through the trees of Sheringham East signal box, North Norfolk Railway, on the evening of Tuesday, 25th June 2019. This was originally sited by the level crossing (closed 1967, restored 2010) but was moved to the west end of the NNR station's platform 2 in the early 1970s. After the 2010 restoration of the crossing, it was moved yet again, this time back to its pre-1970s location next to the crossing which will allow platform 3 at the station to become operational again in the future. 14/14</p><p>25/06/2019<br><small><a href='/contributors/David_Bosher'>David Bosher</a></small></p>
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