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Great Yarmouth railway station (originally Yarmouth Vauxhall) is one of two eastern termini of the Wherry Lines in the East of England, serving the seaside town of Great Yarmouth, Norfolk. The other terminus at the eastern end of the lines is Lowestoft and the western terminus, to which all trains run, is Norwich .
Its act of Parliament, the Yarmouth and Norwich Railway Act 1842 (5 & 6 Vict. c. lxxxii) of 18 June 1842 authorised the issue of £200,000 worth of shares to build a line between the two towns in its name, via Reedham and the Yare valley. The act laid out fees for the carriage of coal (which would arrive at Yarmouth by sea), bricks, iron, stone ...
The line to Beccles closed on 2 November 1959 and all services between Lowestoft and Great Yarmouth operated over the later 1903 line. Expresses still served the station but from 18 June 1962 these were diverted to Yarmouth Vauxhall . [11] The station was proposed for closure under the Beeching Axe. In the mid-1960s it became unstaffed and its ...
The bus station in Great Yarmouth is the hub for local routes, located beneath Market Gates Shopping Centre. Services are operated predominantly by First Eastern Counties. The Excel X1 route, which links Norwich and Lowestoft, stops in the town. Other local bus services link the suburban areas of Martham, Hemsby, Gorleston, Bradwell and Belton ...
English: Great Yarmouth (formerly 'Vauxhall') station, 1993. View SE, to buffer-stops; ex-GER terminus of lines from Norwich etc. By 1993 a dreary scene, with just a Class 101 DMU on a local service from Norwich.
The Yarmouth–Lowestoft line was a railway line which linked the coastal towns of Yarmouth, Gorleston-on-Sea and Lowestoft in the counties of Norfolk and Suffolk, England.It opened on 13 July 1903 as the first direct railway link between the two towns; it was constructed by the Great Eastern Railway and the Midland and Great Northern Railway in the hope of encouraging the development of ...
Newtown Halt was a railway station on the Midland and Great Northern Joint Railway (M&GN) which served the northern part of Great Yarmouth in Norfolk, England.Opened in 1933, it was closed as a wartime economy measure and reopened in 1948 only to last a further eleven years before closing with the line.
Holiday express from Derby in 1951. Yarmouth Beach railway station served Great Yarmouth, Norfolk.It was opened in 1877 by the Great Yarmouth & Stalham Light Railway; it was taken over by the Midland and Great Northern Joint Railway in 1893, which had built a large network of track over East Anglia.