- Swainsthorpe
Swainsthorpe is a village in
Norfolk ,England . It lies about 5 miles south ofNorwich .Its church, St Peter, is one of 124 existing
round-tower church es inNorfolk . [cite web|url=http://www.roundtowerchurches.de/Karte/C5/Swainsthorpe_St_Peter/swainsthorpe_st_peter.html|title=Swainsthorpe, St. Peter|work=RoundTowerChurches|accessdate=2007-04-21]Railway Station
It once possessed a
Swainsthorpe railway station on theGreat Eastern Railway which was the first station south of theNorwich terminus atNorwich Victoria railway station . It closed in1952 .Level crossing accident
At 6:22am on Thursday
1st March 2007, a One Railway service travelling fromColchester inEssex toNorwich , collided with a Vauxhall Astra at the level crossing at Swainsthorpe. One person in the car died. The train, however, remained upright, did not derail and there were no injuries on board. [cite web|url=http://www.eadt.co.uk/content/eadt/news/story.aspx?brand=EADOnline&category=news&tBrand=EADOnline&tCategory=News&itemid=IPED01%20Mar%202007%2008%3A30%3A38%3A967|title=Motorist dies in train crash|work=EADT24 Suffolk and Essex Online|year=2007|author=Archant Regional Ltd|accessdate=2007-04-21]Gallery
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