Room with a View on the Bittern Line, Norfolk UK
From cathedrals to coasts, rolling fields to breath taking sunsets and the serene expanses of water of the Broads National Park, a journey through East Anglia by train is different every time. Discover Norfolk’s many attractions by taking the Bittern Line railway with glorious countryside along the way. Plan your journey here bit.ly/2Zd5UAx and find out more about the Bittern Line here bit.ly/2ZcLmw1 #NorthNorfolkNaturally
Bittern Line (Norfolk) | 13th May 2018
Bittern Line is in the heart of Norfolk between Norwich and Sheringham with Greater Anglia Class 156 and 170 and Class 101 on Norfolk Railway (Poppy Line) and Bure Valley Railway Narrow Gauge at Hoveton & Wroxham. Filmed on 13th May 2018.
Places to see in ( Holt - UK )
Places to see in ( Holt - UK )
Holt is a market town, civil parish and electoral ward in the English county of Norfolk. The town is 22.8 miles north of the city of Norwich, 9.5 miles west of Cromer and 35 miles east of King's Lynn. Holt is on the route of the A148 King's Lynn to Cromer road. The nearest railway station is in the town of Sheringham where access to the national rail network can be made via the Bittern Line to Norwich. Holt also has a railway station on the preserved North Norfolk Railway, the 'Poppy Line', of which it is the south-western terminus. The nearest airport is Norwich.
Holt Hall was owned by Henry Burcham-Rogers, who inherited it from his father John Rogers in 1906. Henry Burcham-Rogers kept the hall until his death in 1945. Holt Hall is currently a field studies centre run by Norfolk County Council. Byfords is thought to be the oldest house in Holt (the cellar dates back to the 15th century), a survivor of the great fire of Holt in 1708 and a further fire in the building in 1906.
Blind Sam is the name given locally to the Queen Victoria Jubilee Lantern located in Obelisk Plain. From the year of Victoria's Golden Jubilee in 1887 until 1921 it stood in the Market Place, where it had two functions, to provide light to the Market Place and to provide drinking water from two fountains at the bottom. The pineapple-topped obelisk at Holt is one of a pair gateposts from Melton Constable Park, the other having been given to the town of Dereham in 1757. Each gatepost had the distances to various places from Holt and Dereham respectively carved into the stone.
Holt Country Park is a short walk from the town. It has had a chequered history, including a horseracing course, heath, farmland, forestry and woodland garden. It has now been developed into a tranquil woodland dominated with Scots pine and native broadleaves. The Lowes is an area of heathland of around 120 acres (0.49 km2) to the south of Holt set aside by the Inclosure Act of 1807.
Holt railway station, opened in 1887, was served by the Midland and Great Northern Railway. Most of this network was closed by British Railways in 1959 but the short section from Melton Constable railway station via Holt to Sheringham (services continuing on to Cromer and Norwich) escaped closure for a few more years – finally succumbing in 1964 when the branch was cut back to Sheringham (now the nearest national rail-head, served by frequent services to Norwich along the 'Bittern Line').
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755410. Salhouse. 24.5.19. (First test run of a Class 755 Flirt unit on The Bittern Line)
755410. Salhouse. 24.5.19. (First test run of a Class 755 Flirt unit on The Bittern Line)
The Wells Branch, Norfolk, 2017
Travelling by rail along the surviving parts of the Wells-Next-The-Sea to Wymondham railway line in Norfolk, England during Summer 2017.
The original line is now in four sections, the narrow-gauge Wells and Walsingham, standard-gauge Mid-Norfolk Railway, proposed Norfolk Orbital Railway and a lost section that will never see a train again. This video concentrates on the sections that are still open to passenger rail transport.
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Pete Waterman OBE Says Historic North Norfolk Railway Link With Bittern Line Better Than Eurovision
Peter Waterman OBE underlined his life-long passion for steam trains by saying This is better than the Eurovision Song Contest, I'm enjoying every minute of it, I have to dash now because I have a train to catch much to the delight and laughter of onlookers and Poppyline officials. North Norfolk Railway spokesman, Colin Borg said This means so much for Norfolk people and everyone involved, it was an enormous team effort working around the clock to achieve what we see today
Smash hit music maker Pete Waterman made an emotional speech to celebrate the long-awaited link up of the Bittern Line rail link to Norwich with the Poppy Line railway in Sheringham, Norfolk. Thousands of rail enthusiasts and supporters lined the streets to witness history in the making and cheer the steam locomotive Oliver Cromwell, carrying the first passengers over the new tramway-style crossing for the first time in 50 years.70013 Oliver Cromwell is a British Railways standard class 7 preserved steam locomotive. The locomotive is notable as one of the four steam locomotives which worked the last steam railtour on British Rail in 1968 before the introduction of a steam ban
Pete Waterman has worked along side superstars like Kylie Minogue Donna Summer, Geri Halliwell, and Westlife and of course more recently writing and producing the 2010 Eurovision Song entry for the United Kingdom. Mr Peter Waterman OBE underlined his life-long passion for steam trains.
The original crossing over Station Road was initially closed as part of Dr Beeching's railway reform in the 1960s so it was an emotional event for people who remembered the demise of steam and fought for decades for the crossing to be reinstated. The drama unfolded amongst people wearing fashions from the Golden Age of steam complete with 1940's hats, makeshift pin striped stockings from war years and bygone memorabilia.Sheringham stepped back in time to mark this giant step forward for North Norfolk Railway.
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Bittern Line Norwich to Sheringham
The complete journey on the Bittern Line aboard service 2S12. On this service Worstead & Roughton Road Stations were not served.
Places to see in ( North Walsham - UK )
Places to see in ( North Walsham - UK )
North Walsham is a market town and civil parish in Norfolk, England within the North Norfolk district. North Walsham is 7.5 miles (12.1 kilometres) south of Cromer and the same distance north of Wroxham. The county town and city of Norwich is 15 miles (24 kilometres) south. The town is served by North Walsham railway station, on the Bittern Line between Norwich, Cromer and Sheringham. The main road through the town of North Walsham is the A149. Also, North Walsham is located on the B1145.
North Walsham is on the North Walsham & Dilham Canal, still privately owned by the North Walsham Canal Company. The canal ran from Antingham Mill, largely following the course of the River Ant to a point below Honing. A short branch canal leaves the main navigation near Honing and terminates at the village of Dilham.
North Walsham was involved in the Peasants' Revolt of 1381. The peasants' leaders were defeated at the Battle of North Walsham and the site is marked by a wayside stone near the town's water towers.
North Walsham High School is a community school, for pupils aged 11 to 16 located in the town. The school includes a £5.3m arts and education development called the Atrium which is open to the wider community, funded by the initial co-location funds of reanimating communities. The building belongs to North Walsham High School, but the theatre, cinema, workshop and events programme is run by a registered charity. The charity (The Atrium North Norfolk Ltd) formed in early 2013 and operates as 'the Atrium'.
North Walsham now has a cinema once again, in the form of the Atrium which opened in 2011. The Atrium is a state-of-the-art theatre and cinema with regular screenings and special events around the films. North Walsham is home to a London 1 North rugby team. North Walsham R.F.C. narrowly missed out on promotion to National League 2 in 2005-06, losing a play-off to Nuneaton.
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Places to see in ( Attleborough - UK )
Places to see in ( Attleborough - UK )
Attleborough is a market town and civil parish between Norwich and Thetford in Norfolk, England. The parish is in the district of Breckland and has an area of 21.9 square kilometres. Attleborough is in the Mid-Norfolk constituency of the UK Parliament, represented since the 2010 general election by the Conservative MP George Freeman. Attleborough railway station provides a main line rail service to both Norwich and Cambridge.
Following Henry the VIII's Dissolution of the Monasteries the building was virtually destroyed by Robert Radcliffe, Lord Fitz Walter, Earl of Sussex, and material from the building was used for making up the road between Attleborough and Buckenham. However, this left Attleborough Church with a tower at the east end.
The arrival of the prisoners aroused a great deal of public interest, and eventually traders set up a fair whenever they came. This became known as Attleborough Rogues Fair and was held on the market place on the last Thursday in March. Also on the market place festivities took place on Midsummer Day, when the annual guild was held. It appears that there has been the right to hold a weekly Thursday market in the town since 1285. A weekly market is still held and has recently (in 2004) returned to Queen's Square where it is presumed the market was originally held.
The first turnpike road in England is reputed to have been created here at the end of the 17th century, Acts of Parliament were passed in 1696 and 1709, For the repairing of the highway between Wymondham and Attleborough, in the County of Norfolk, and for including therein the road from Wymondham to Hethersett.
Structurally the town changed little during the 1950s and there were no great leaps in population growth, other than the arrival of the notorious London gangsters, the Kray twins, who took over a local hostelry. The '60s were different, the overspill programme and new town development brought new families into south Norfolk. Attleborough had to make decisions for the future and new development zones were designated.
The first estate programme began with the building of the council-owned Cyprus Estate which has since been complemented by other private housing schemes such as Fairfields and Ollands built mainly in the 1970s and a large estate on the south side of the town in the 1990s. The traditional traffic route along the A11 trunk road became a bottleneck as it ran both ways along High Street and Church Street, thus in the 1970s a one-way system was opened channelling traffic around the natural ring road surrounding the church. The volume of traffic continued to increase making that change obsolete so the Attleborough bypass was opened in 1984. The bypass was widened and completed in 2007 removing the only single lane section of the A11 between Thetford and Norwich.
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Chariots of (Hell) Fire - Last Years of the British Rail Sprinter
With total fleet replacement due by 2020, this short film is a celebration of the quiet contribution that these Diesel Units have made to Norfolk's railways since introduction in the 1980s.
Filmed on the Bittern Line in Norfolk, which has enjoyed a three-fold increase in passenger numbers since the Sprinters took over services - having been slated for closure in the 1960s and 1980s.
Also includes footage from the BR Regional Railways-era, when these units were the new face of British railways.
Why the title? Sprinters = Runners = Chariots of Fire. Hellfire is a term often used to describe an impressive item of rolling stock - and, although a Sprinter is a long way from this in normal terms, they have certainly completed their design brief and helped turn around the fates of many lines.
Places to see in ( Sheringham - UK )
Places to see in ( Sheringham - UK )
Sheringham is an English seaside town within the county of Norfolk in the United Kingdom. The motto of the town, granted in 1953 to the Sheringham Urban District Council, is Mare Ditat Pinusque Decorat, Latin for The sea enriches and the pine adorns.
Sheringham town centre is centred on a traditional high street with a wide range of privately owned shops. On Saturdays throughout the year there is a popular market in the car park next to the railway station which attracts large crowds even out of the holiday season. The town also has a good selection of specialist shops such as second-hand books, antiques and bric-a-brac, fishing tackle and bait, a computer shop, a model shop, and arts and craft shops. The Sheringham Little Theatre has a wide range of productions on throughout the year including a well-established summer repertory season running from July to September, and a popular pantomime at Christmas; in the foyer is a coffee shop with display of art by local artists. There is a selection of food outlets, pubs, restaurants and a youth hostel.
The Mo Sheringham museum now known as The Mo includes a collection of old lifeboats, various displays, a viewing tower and houses the Sheringham Shoal Offshore Wind Farm visitor centre.
Sheringham is reputed to be the only place in the world to have four of its original lifeboats. The Sheringham Museum Trust owns three of these: JC Madge (1904–36) pulling and sailing.
The railway line to Cromer and Norwich remains open as the Bittern Line. Beyond Sheringham station, the line has been preserved as the North Norfolk Railway also known as the Poppy Line to Holt. Sheringham is also the North Norfolk Railway link with the National Rail network, which was completed in 2010 and used officially by 70013 Oliver Cromwell.
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TA Season 4 Episode 9 - Railways Of Norfolk
Welcome to the newest installment to the Train Adventures franchise Season 4 episode 9 in this episode we cover most railways and lines of Norfolk apart from the Bittern Line, Bressingham Steam Museum and North Norfolk Railway, in this episode we explored Norwich for the short hauled sets once again this time being hauled by Class 68s rather then Class 37s, after that we visited the Bure Valley Railway a 15 inch Narrow Gauge Steam Railway then given a private Tour around the Whitwell And Reepham Railway to then round off the episode at the Mid Norfolk Railway for there spring diesel gala on the 11th September 2016 this episode also see's the first appearence of Michael Hughes who will be joining Samuel Beamon And Simon Veasey on Adventures in the future.
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The Beautiful Norfolk Broads, UK
Norfolk Broads UK, August 2017.
A scenic cruise with a bump at the end!
Norfolk Trails, Bittern Line Walks, 10, Sheringham. 27.2.16
An 8 mile walk around Sheringham on mixed surfaces (mainly soft) and including Beeston Bump; Beeston Regis Priory (1216); Beeston Common; Sheringham Park and The Poppyline of North Norfolk Railway. A Google search will provide interesting background on these places.
A nice, varied walk best done in a clockwise direction to avail of the winds on the coast walk.
Train clears deep snow from UK tracks
A train with a snow plough attached to its front drove deep snow from tracks to clear a key UK train route.
After the worst snowstorms in Britain for nearly 30 years, the train filmed by one of Britain's Network Rail engineers at Strumpshaw station cleared the Norwich to Lowestoft line in Norfolk, eastern England.
The railway network told it uses different types of ploughs on the front of trains when it is confident that no more snow will fall.
All snow ploughs that are owned by freight operating companies need a minimum of two locomotives to cut through snow, which gives flexibility and resilience, the train company added.
The ploughs include the most common mini snow ploughs (MSPs) that clip onto the front of trains with blades that can be adjusted for snow depth of up to 18 inches (45.7 centimetres), to more robust ploughs for heavier snowfalls, such as the Bielhack V plough and Independent snow plough.
A blast of Siberian cold dubbed the Beast from the East has grounded planes, stopped trains, blocked roads and shut schools in the past week.
Blakeney and Cley-Next-The-Sea Coast Walk Scenery - Norfolk Walks - Tour England Walking Holidays UK
Blakeney and Cley-Next-The-Sea Coast Walk Scenery - Norfolk Walks - Tour England Walking Holidays UK
Enjoy some great Blakeney and Cley-Next-The-Sea Country and Coast Walk scenery with relaxing music to see if you fancy Norfolk Walks whilst on tour England Walking Holidays UK. Along the walk you visit: Blakeney and Cley-Next-The-Sea; Glaven Valley and Blakeney Esker; Wiveton Common and Wiveton Down; Kettlehill Plantation and Blakeney Downs; Morston Downs and Morston Salt Marshes. Scenery includes views of: coastal scenery of low-lying fens with sea defences, salt marshes, creeks and general maritime gear but barely a glimpse of the sea; broad landscape and wide open skies punctuated by the silhouette of the village’s eighteenth century windmill. You also see quays, jetties, boats, an assortment of buildings and two churches.
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Roughton Road Train Station
Train Service From Norwich To Sheringham Via Cromer Calling At Roughton Road
Norfolk Trails, Bittern Line Walks, 6, Gunton. 20/3/16.
A pleasant, short walk of 4 miles down quiet lanes and crossing South Repps Common Local nature Reserve, a 12 hectare area of woodland, reed-bed and grassland.
The flint houses in the area are believed to date from the 17th and 18th centuries, with the stones coming from the local beaches.
Steam train on north Norfolk coast, UK
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The north Norfolk steam railway is run largely by volunteers between Sheringham and Holt passing the North Norfolk coast as seen here. It has ten steam trains built between 1912 and 1959. It also loans its engines out to similar organisations.
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Norfolk Trails, Bittern Line Walk 9, West Runton. 12/3/16
A 5.5 mile walk starting from West Runton station. Up to Incleborough Hill for great views of the surrounding countryside and coast, then on over the rail line at 'Cromer Curve'. Shortly after, there's a wooded section up to Norfolk's highest point, the National Trust's Roman Camp, at a lofty 336 feet! It had nothing to do with the Romans either, but was a former iron works, dating from about 850 to 1150 A.D.
A pleasant walk through some varied countryside.