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The Norfolk Orbital Railway is a proposal to link the Mid-Norfolk Railway and the North Norfolk Railway to create a line running from Sheringham to Wymondham, restoring regular services to Fakenham and Melton Constable. [4] In 2008 Hunstanton Council considered a proposal to re-open the line from King's Lynn, but decided against it. [5]
The Norfolk Railway was an early railway company that controlled a network of 94 miles around Norwich, England. It was formed in 1845 by the amalgamation of the Yarmouth and Norwich Railway opened in 1844, and the Norwich and Brandon Railway , not yet opened.
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 North Norfolk Railway (NNR) – also known as the "Poppy Line" – is a 5 + 1 ⁄ 4-mile (8.4 km) heritage steam railway in Norfolk, England, running between the towns of Sheringham and Holt. The North Norfolk Railway is owned and operated as a public limited company , [ 1 ] originally called Central Norfolk Enterprises Limited.
The Mid-Norfolk Railway (MNR) is a 17 + 1 ⁄ 2 miles (28.2 km) preserved standard gauge heritage railway, one of the longest in Great Britain. [4] Preservation efforts began in 1974, but the line re-opened to passengers only in the mid-1990s as part of the "new generation" of heritage railways. [5]
Sheringham is the name of a preserved railway station in Sheringham, Norfolk. It was once part of the Midland and Great Northern Joint Railway network and closed in 1967 when a new station was opened by British Rail c.200m eastwards. Since July 1975 it has served as the eastern terminus of the North Norfolk Railway.
The Norfolk and Suffolk Joint Railway (NSJR) was a British joint railway company.. The NSJR was owned by the Great Eastern Railway (GER) and the Midland and Great Northern Joint Railway (MGNJ) and consisted of two distinct sections: a line between North Walsham and Cromer via Mundesley, and a coastal section running from Gorleston to Lowestoft.
The Great Eastern Railway had taken control of the East Norfolk Railway in 1881, before this line was completed. [9] The branch joined the Great Eastern Railway's line from Dereham to Fakenham at Broom Green, where there was a 20 chain curve. [7] The complete line opened in 1882. [10]