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Cromer Branch By Stanley C. Jenkins Softcover British
Cromer Branch By Stanley C. Jenkins
Softcover 144 pages
Copyright 1989
Contents
Introduction
Historical Summary
Chapter One Origins, Opening and Early Years (1864-1882) Cromer before the railway - early railway development in north eastern Norfolk - formation of the East Norfolk Railway - construction and opening - the Cromer extension - completion to Cromer - early train
services - the end of local control
Chapter Two Expansion of the System (1882-1906)
The origins of "Poppyland" - rival schemes - further
extensions - completion of the system - 19th century
motive power - the Cromer train crash
Chapter Three The "Poppyland" Era (1906-1923)
Residential traffic - the "Cromer Express" - the "Norfolk Coast Express" - restaurant car services - By M &GN to "Poppyland" - excursion traffic - Edwardian motive power - World War One - the last
years of the GER
Chapter Four The LNER Period (1923-1947)
Post grouping developments - Mundesley branch rationalisation - Pullman cars on the Cromer branch -train services in the 1920s and 1930s - World War Two
Chapter Five The British Railways Period (1948-1987)
Early rationalisation - train services in the 1950s steam and diesel motive power - closure of the M &GN - the Beeching years - the post-Beeching era - recent
developments
Chapter Six The Route Described
Norwich Thorpe - Whitlingham - Salhouse - Wrox-ham - Worstead - North Walsham - Gunton - Cromer Beach - Cromer High - West Runton - Sheringham - Cromer Links Halt - Overstrand - Sidestrand Halt - Trimingham - Mundesley-on-Sea - Paston & Knapton
Chapter Seven Miscellaneous Details
Station architecture - signalling and signal cabins -
platform furniture - station liveries - a note on tickets
Sources and Bibliography
Appendix 1 Some Personalities
Appendix 2Great Eastern Station Masters on the ENR line
Index
Introduction
The 26 mile long branch from Norwich to Cromer is the only passenger line left open in North Norfolk. Promoted by the nominally independent East Norfolk Railway, the line was from the outset worked by the Great Eastern, and it eventually passed into full GER ownership. Opened, between Whitlingham Junction and North Walsham on 20th October, 1874, the line was pushed northwards to Gunton on 29th July, 1876, and on 26th March, 1877, trains started to run to and from the nascent seaside resort of Cromer. Cromer grew rapidly thereafter; new hotels mushroomed around the old fishing settlement, a sea wall was built, and the old wooden jetty was replaced by a fine Victorian pier. By 1897, the resort was so popular that a special new train - "The Cromer Express" - was laid on between Liverpool Street and Cromer. Headed by a Holden single, the train covered the 130 miles between London and North Walsham in only 158 minutes, putting Cromer within 2 hours 55 minutes of the Capital.
Cromer, at the heart of Norfolk's "poppyland", seemed to have an assured future as a popular (though rather select) holiday resort, but sadly, World War I heralded the demise of Cromer's Edwardian heyday, and, although the LNER revived through workings in the 1920s and 1930s, the glamour of the Edwardian era had gone for good.
The Second World War saw Cromer in the Front Line and, in those years of conflict, the branch carried large numbers of servicemen instead of the usual holidaymakers. The return of peace in 1945 was followed by a gradual build-up of holiday traffic - aided by petrol rationing, which staved off road competition. Shortly after Nationalisation, in 1948, a new
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