Friday, 20 October 2017

The North Norfolk Railway


In the spring of 1992, we took a self-catering family holiday in a bungalow at Wells-next-the-Sea. One of the highlights of the week away was a trip on the North Norfolk Railway between Sheringham and Weybourne.

Built by Holden as a Great Eastern Railway Class S69 4-6-0, LNER Class B12 No. 8572 became No. 61572 in BR days. Withdrawn in 1961, she is the sole surviving member of her class.

I was obviously very impressed by her. I don’t think I had ever taken so many pictures of one engine at one time before. That was still in my pre-digital age of spool films, when every shot taken was a potentially precious item.






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