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Meanwhile in the locomotive department, Battle of Britain 4-6-2 34081 92 Squadron has returned to its own identity after a period masquerading as classmate 34057 Biggin Hill. The engine is shortly to be leaving for the Bluebell Railway on loan. Also J15 0-6-0 65462 has been having its retube completed. This engine will also be leaving the NNR soon, destined for the Gloucestershire Warwickshire Railway, where it will remain until early next year. 1 October 2007The railway is now running steam trains on most days until 28 October. See the timetable page for details. Advance bookings are continuing to come in for the Thomas weekend. Click here for details of the event and how to buy tickets for the event and how you can reserve seats behind Thomas. There is a discount for tickets purchased on or before 13 October. Bookings are also being taken for our popular Santa Specials. Early booking is advised to avoid disappointment. Click here for details of these festive trains. 19 September 2007Last weekend saw another very busy 1940s Weekend. Steam trains are still running daily until 4 October although with a less intensive timetable. See the timetable page for details. Our next Special Event is the Thomas weekend, which takes place on the 20, 21 and 22 October, at the start of the half term week. Details of this event are available on the Thomas page, including details of how to book in advance. There is a discount for tickets purchased on or before 13 October. Also for the first time at a Thomas event it is possible to reserve seats behind Thomas on a specific train. Again, see the Thomas page for details. Not long after, our Santa Specials will be upon us. Advanced booking for these trains is essential and it is advisable to book early as they are very popular, with some trains usually filling up several weeks beforehand. Details of these trains and how to book are available on the Santa Special page. 11 September 2007Both of our summer visiting engines have now left the railway. Full details are now online about our 1940s Weekend, including the special timetable. Click here to view the 1940s Weekend page. 22 August 2007Last week, visiting locomotive 9F 2-10-0 92203 Black Prince arrived on the North Norfolk Railway. The engine is owned by wildlife artist David Shepherd and is based on the Gloucestershire Warwickshire Railway. It is intended that the locomotive will operate every day up to and including our Steam Gala, which ends on Sunday 2 September. On Sunday 26 August, Black Prince will be hauling a special train during our Evening With David Shepherd event. On Monday 27 August, the engine will be in service hauling a private charter and will not be hauling public services. 14 August 2007Further information about the Steam Gala are now online, including timetables and diagrams. Click here for details. 9 August 2007GWR 56xx 0-6-2T 5643 arrived yesterday afternoon from the Lakeside & Haverthwaite Railway. The engine is due to enter service shortly and will operate some passenger services on the line before appearing at our Steam Gala at the end of the month. Our second summer visitor, 9F 2-10-0 92203 Black Prince is due to arrive at the end of next week or early the week after. It is hoped this engine will operate most days up to and including the Steam Gala, with the exception of Monday 27 August when it will hauling a private service. 19 July 2007The North Norfolk Railway is proud to be holding an Exclusive Evening with David Shepherd, His Art & His Steam Engine. Click here for full details. 10 July 2007The Beer List for this weekend's Beer Festival is now available online. 27 June 2007Shortly after the Steam Dream weekend, Battle of Britain 4-6-2 34081 92 Squadron will be visiting the Swanage Railway for a week. In return GWR 56xx 0-6-2T 6695 will be visiting the NNR for that period. It is due to arrive around the 4 July and will operate some of our passenger services during its week-long stay with us. 6695 will be the second 56xx class engine to visit us this year, following the visit of 6619 from the North Yorkshire Moors Railway, which visited at the end of April. A third engine of this class, 5643 is due to visit from the Lakeside & Haverthwaite Railway in mid August. 25 June 2007Full details of the Steam Dream event are now available online, including the timetable, diagram and locomotive allocations. Click here to view the Steam Dream page. Please note it was previously intended that 34081 92 Squadron would masquerade as 34057 Biggin Hill for this event. However in order to ensure that a number of minor faults with the engine are repaired in time for the event it has been decided to postpone the renumbering until the Steam Gala at the end of August. There are still places available on the charity Cheese & Wine train. Click here for full details, including how to buy tickets. 19 June 2007To keep in the with Great Eastern theme at the Steam Dream event, 34081 92 Squadron will be masquerading as 34057 Biggin Hill. This locomotive was allocated to shed 30A for a period during 1951. Here are some photographs of 56xx 0-6-2T 5643 which is due to visit the line in August, courtesy of the Furness Railway Trust.
18 June 2007A second visiting steam locomotive will be on the North Norfolk Railway this summer. GWR 56xx 0-6-2T 5643 from the Lakeside and Haverthwaite Railway will be visiting us during August and early September, including during our Steam Gala. The other visiting engine during this period is 9F 2-10-0 92203 Black Prince. 5643 is the second 56xx class engine to visit the NNR this year, the first being 6619 from the North Yorkshire Moors Railway, which visited at the end of April. For detailed information about 5643, including some photographs visit the Furness Railway Trust's website. 12 June 2007We are pleased to announce the long-awaited Great Eastern "Steam Dream" will take place over the weekend of 30 June and 1 July 2007. Our three Great Eastern designed engines will be in service over the two days, accompanied by a Southern Railway pacific. The event will run alongside the scheduled Living History day. Click here for details. 6 June 2007The latest timetable, diagram and information for the Diesel Weekend are available online. Click here to view them. Class 47 47367 is now available for service after a long overhaul. The locomotive now has vacuum brakes fitted, meaning it can haul passenger trains on the line. The first of these passenger runs will take place over the 9 and 10 June, on our Diesel Weekend. Also entering service over this weekend will be the Class 25. This locomotive has received attention to its bodywork over the last few months and now makes a welcome return in British Railways blue with full yellow cab ends, numbered as 25057. 23 May 2007Full details of our Diesel Weekend are now available online, including the timetable, diagram and loco allocations. Click here to view the Diesel Weekend page. 15 May 2007The Battle of Britain Locomotive Society are holding their 21st Summer Evening Beer Train on the NNR, on the evening of Saturday 16 June. The evening will consist of a trip along the line and back, including food and entertainment. This year a traditional hog roast will be served on Weybourne station. A selection of real ales will be available, including 92 Squadron's own beer. Wines, spirits and soft drinks will be available from the bar. The Ugly Dog Skiffle Combo will be providing entertainment on the train and on Weybourne station whilst passengers enjoy the Hog Roast. The train will depart Sheringham at 19:00 and will return
around 22:00, in time for the 'One' train service to Norwich.
Tickets cost £12.50 each and if you are a member of
the BoBLS Society you can purchase tickets for £10.00
each. Further information is available on the BoBLS website. 11 May 2007Details of Routemaster bus services for May are now online, including information on the new Sunday Scenic Tours. See the Routemaster page for details. Also a Ghost Train Experience evening has been scheduled for Saturday 30 June in partnership with Spirit Nights. The evening will consist of a ride in our Diesel Multiple Unit to Weybourne, departing from Sheringham at 19:30. There will be a stop in Dead Man's Cutting en route and then a Haunted Vigil at Weybourne station. The train will then return to Sheringham for some food and a Spirit Investigation, under a full moon. Tickets cost £25 per person and are available online here, or by calling 0800 0262 852. Advanced booking is essential. Click here for further details or visit the Spirit Nights website at www.dyingtotalk.com. 3 May 2007
Right: The J15 entering Rolvenden with a three coach Maunsell set. Below left: The engine taking water at Rolvenden. Below right: 65462 shunting Freshwater and Bodiam.
29 April 2007An additional special event has been scheduled for October 2007. Thomas the Tank Engine will be visiting the line for the second time this year, from the 20th to the 22nd October. Full details are available here.
24 April 2007
Elsewhere on the railway, services have been hauled by B12 61572, J15 65462 and BoB 34081 92 Squadron over the last few weeks, as shown in these photographs. Thanks to Steve Allen and Len Casey for providing them.
10 April 2007
This engine is the second to leave Weybourne sheds in a month after a long period of repairs, the first being the M&GN Society's B12 61572, pictured below right with 92 Squadron. These photographs show the quality of the new paintwork in the darker British Railways Brunswick green - you can even see the reflection of Weybourne signal box! Click on the images for larger versions. Thank you to Ben Fraser and Ian Bowskill for supplying the images. 92 Squadron is due to enter public service tomorrow for a few days before going on loan for a week to the Llangollen Railway for the "Steel, Steam & Stars" gala.
Also we have a new feature on the website. Time-lapse movies of our webcams are now available for the past 7 days, not just the previous day. Click here to view the webcam index page and then click on an image for a larger version and the time-lapse movies. 2 April 2007The North Norfolk Railway has announced its visiting engine for the summer of 2007 is 9F 2-10-0 92203 Black Prince. The locomotive was built in 1954 to haul heavy freight trains but has also spent time during its working life hauling passenger trains. 92203 is private owned by David Shepherd and is normally based on the Gloucester & Warwickshire Railway. It will arrive at the NNR on 13th August and will depart immediately after our Steam Gala, at the beginning of September.
Thank you to Steve Williams and Darin Fryatt for the two photographs of 92203 above. There are more excellent photographs of the locomotive on the Gloucester & Warwickshire Railway's website. 26 March 2007Two further Sunday Lunch trains have now been scheduled, in addition to the Cheese & Wine train. These will operate on 17 June and 8 July 2007. Visit the dining train page for details. 19 March 2007On 18 March 2007, the B12 re-entered public service after overhaul. It spent most of the day hauling a 5 coach train. One service hauled was the Mothers' Day Sunday Lunch special. 14 March 2007
12 March 2007We are pleased to announce the return of our "Journey along the Line" pages. This section of the website takes you on a "virtual tour" from Sheringham along the line to Holt, with numerous photographs of the scenery en route. Click here to view these pages. 27 February 2007We have moved our website guestbook to a custom built page that is in-keeping with the site's design. Please feel free to comment, suggestions for improvements are always welcomed. Click here to view the guestbook entries. 24 February 2007The railway has recently scheduled two dining trains to operate. The first of these is a Mothers' Day Sunday Lunch train and the other is a charity Cheese & Wine train. Click here for details. 19 February 2007We are please to announce the relaunch of our online shop for 2007. Tickets for standard service days, the Steam Gala, 1940s Weekend and our 2007 Santa Specials and Carol Concert can now be purchased by clicking here. In addition you can purchase Driver Experience packages and a range of books, DVDs and souvenirs. New for this year are a number of limited edition Dapol "00" gauge model railway wagons.
Meanwhile at Weybourne work is progressing in the engine and carriage sheds. The B12 passed its boiler test recently and a steam test is planned for the near future. Once this has been passed the engine will be given a few finishing touches and a full repaint before returning to service. The N7 is currently having repairs carried out to its connecting rod and inside motion. Next door in the carriage & wagon works, the overhaul continues on Tourist Second Open E4843. Currently the coach is inside the shed without any bogies, as the wheelsets are being changed for ones without "flats". Also long-term restoration project, Restaurant Buffet E1969 is in the process of having the end gangway connections installed, as can be seen in the image below right.
13 February 2007Four further images have been published on the bridge road carriage sheds page, showing progress with the construction of the roofs and sides. Meanwhile at Holt station, the goods shed is currently having a "lean to" shelter fitted on the landward side. This will allow a small carriage such as the pigeon van to be displayed as part of the museum when not in service, whilst receiving some protection from the elements. The two images below show construction so far. Click on them for larger versions.
2 February 2007Progress is being made rapidly on erecting the two new carriage sheds near bridge 299. Click here for more details including several photographs. 30 January 2007Full details of the Thomas weekend are now online, including the special timetable. 29 January 2007The railway is now operating every weekend until the end of November, with a variety of steam and diesel services. See the timetable for details. Our 2007 Thomas weekend will take place on 10 - 12 February and then a standard steam service will operate daily until 18 February, over the half term week. Further details of our Thomas weekend are now available online. 3 January 2007November and December have been very busy months for the railway. During November further clearance of lineside vegetation took place near Kelling Heath Halt. This, together with similar work last year, has opened up the fabulous view down to Weybourne village once again. December saw our popular Santa Specials running. Once again a record number of passengers were carried during this period. After Christmas the Mince Pie Specials took over, followed by our Winter Mini-Gala over the New Year weekend. A variety of steam and diesel locomotives hauled services over these two months, including visiting USA 2-8-0 5197. This locomotive has now returned to the Churnet Valley Railway. Also on the locomotive front, Class 47 diesel 47367 has made several test runs on the line. Although now in running condition, this locomotive is not able to haul any passenger trains until the fitting of vacuum brakes has been completed. B12 4-6-0 61572 has resided in Weybourne yard for the last year, without its wheels, whilst work was undertaken on the axleboxes and motion. Just before Christmas this locomotive was re-wheeled and shunted into the sheds to allow reassembly to take place inside. Hopefully this engine will return to service in time for the main season, along with BoB 4-6-2 34081 92 Squadron, which has received attention to its firebox, amongst other things.
WD Austerity 2-10-0 90775 was withdrawn from service in October with leaking stays. Work to replace these will commence shortly and hopefully this well liked engine will return to public service around Easter. Next door in the carriage sheds, work has continued on TSO M4843 and RBR M1969. A major achievement in the last month has been the fitting of brand new bogies to the Wisbech & Upwell coach. Now work can commence with the fitting of brake gear, couplings and buffers. Work on the new carriage storage sheds near Holt have now started in earnest. The site has been leveled, concrete has been poured and the steel framework will be delivered in the next few weeks. A selection of track panels have been delivered to the railway for use in the new carriage sidings. These are some of the panels from the Norwich to Sheringham 'Bittern Line' that have recently been replaced by Network Rail. The panels are in store, awaiting construction of the sheds, after which they will be transported to the site and installed. This project should be completed in time for the return of the Quad-Art coaches later in 2007.
The railway has now ceased operations until 3 February. During this period all three stations will be closed. Although Sheringham buffet and shop are normally open regardless of whether trains are running, during January they will be closed to allow a programme of maintenance to be carried out prior to the 2007 season. The office at Sheringham station (01263 820800) will be open for enquiries on some weekdays only during January. The online shop has also been closed for restocking. It will reopen later in the year with a selection of products available. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
