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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 ...
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 ...
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.
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 .
The smaller western section was previously the horse drawn Yarmouth and Gorleston Tramway system. It commenced operation as an electric tramway on 4 July 1905 and ran from Yarmouth South Town railway station , along Southtown Road, Gorleston High Street and Springfield Road, and had a branch from Gorleston High Street, along Pier Plain, England ...
Great Yarmouth received its first lifeboat in 1802. It was never called out. In 1825 the Norfolk Association for Saving the Lives of Shipwrecked Mariners stationed its first lifeboat at Great Yarmouth. The station was taken over by the RNLI in 1857 and in 1859 a new lifeboat house was built at a cost of £375 (equivalent to £47,400 in 2023).