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Cromer Links Halt railway station

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Due to its wooden construction, virtually no trace of Cromer Links Halt has survived other than the gate to the approach path up the embankment, the rotting remains of which were said to be entangled in the undergrowth at the site of the station.
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The halt was approached from the road by a path leading up the embankment on which the railway ran. To the west, a bridge carried the line over Northrepps Road from where it proceeded on another embankment before reaching
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The Directory of Railway Stations: details every public and private passenger station, halt, platform and stopping place, past and present
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Opened as part of an attempt to encourage holiday traffic on the line, the halt primarily served golfers at the nearby
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together with the obligatory oil lamps. No shelter was provided for passengers and the platform was constructed of
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which was built by the Norfolk and Suffolk Joint Railway to take the line under the
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route. Although only 61 yards long, the tunnel is notable as being one of only two
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The line was served in general by around half a dozen trains each way between
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tunnels anywhere in Norfolk, the other being Barsham Tunnel on the
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and Cromer Beach. However, with no direct service to
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Index

TG232409
Cromer
Norfolk and Suffolk Joint Railway
Roughton Road Junction
Overstrand station
Royal Cromer Golf Club
running in board
sleepers
Cromer Tunnel
Great Eastern's
Norwich
standard gauge
Wells-on-Sea branch
North Walsham
Mundesley
Norwich
British Railways
nationalisation
Norfolk and Suffolk
Overstrand
Railway stations in Cromer
Butt (1995)
Joby (1985)
"History of Royal Cromer Golf Club"
the original


Adderson & Kenworthy (1998)

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