On the M&GN

Another shopping trip over to Sheringham at lunchtime.  We parked by the station where I was just in time to see this steam engine, No 564, running around its train.

I had forgotten that today is the 60th anniversary of the closure of the line from Sheringham through to Melton Constable and Bom has blipped some fabulous shots to commemorate it.  The section to Holt now forms the North Norfolk Railway and in my shot the National Rail station which is now the end of the national network can be seen between the engine and signal box where there is a line of street lights.  The line was originally opened by the M&GN which stands for 'Midland and Great Northern' but was locally known as 'Muddles and Goes Nowhere', and was one of the few small railways that avoided being brought into the 'Big Four' in the Grouping of 1923.