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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 .
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 360-foot (110 m) chimney was a landmark of Great Yarmouth, and had been the tallest structure in Norfolk. [6] The current gas power station plant was built on the site by Bechtel for Great Yarmouth Power Limited (a specially formed company owned by BP, Amoco and Arco) [7] between 1998 and 2001. The project was projected to cost £185 ...
An L1 2-6-4T in a wintry scene at Beccles Station about to work the Lowestoft portion of an express train from London Liverpool Street. In 1954 there was a general acceleration of the best trains between London and Yarmouth, at 2 hours 58 minutes for 121 miles, running semi-fast from Ipswich.
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.
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 project also showed potential crossing improvements for the Cape Cod Rail Trail users as either a new off-ramp from the trail on the west side of Station Avenue or a new type of pedestrian ...
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 ...