- Holt railway station
Holt railway station was a station in
Norfolk ,England . It was opened in1887 . It was part of theMidland and Great Northern Joint Railway network, which spread over much of East Anglia. Trains ran northwards fromMelton Constable and through Holt to Sheringham or Cromer. It was connected toNorwich , the county capital, atNorwich City railway station . There were plans to construct a branch line from Holt to Blakeney, but they never came to fruition.When most of the Norfolk railway lines were closed in 1959, the branch on which Holt stood managed to evade closure for a few more years until 1964. The following year, the
North Norfolk Railway was organised, which restored most of the line between Sheringham and Holt. [cite web|url=http://www.whiteswan.u-net.com/Stalham/station.html|title=Stalham history] Holt station itself was not on this heritage line, as the railway stopped at a new terminus on the edge of town, through there are proposals to extend back into the centre of town once more. [cite web|url=http://www.nnrailway.co.uk/holt_station.htm|title=Holt Station|publisher=North Norfolk Railway]There is also a larger scheme afoot, the proposed
Norfolk Orbital Railway which could see Holt with a regular railway service again. It would link togetherSheringham andWymondham using the existing lines of theNorth Norfolk Railway and theMid Norfolk Railway and laying some fresh connecting track on old trackbeds.
Future Servicesee also
*
List of closed railway stations in Norfolk
*Holt railway station (North Norfolk Railway) References
Wikimedia Foundation. 2010.