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One of many GBRf Class 66s in special liveries, 66711 Sense can be distinguished from the similar Class 59/0s which also wear Aggregate Industries livery by the yellow nameplate and different front end configuration. The attractive General Motors loco slows for Trowse Junction while working 6P41 0957 Harwich Refinery Crls Slvs to North Walsham Gbrf.
Preserved Class 40 D213 rollws into Trowse while working 1Z31 0639 Crewe to Norwich, the outward journey of "The East Anglian 2", operated by Locomotive Services Limited. 87002 had worked a similar charter to Norwich in 2022, hence the name of this tour. 47805 was on the rear providing ETH.
After a number of years with a large bush obstructing this location, taken from the A146 road over the Great Eastern Mainline near Trowse, some lineside vegetation management has opened up the location with a much clearer and unobstructed view. GBRf's retro livery 66793 wearing triple grey Railfreight livery with construction logos eases towards Trowse Junction with 6P41 0957 Harwich Refinery Crls Slvs to North Walsham Gbrf.
A regular visitor to Norfolk in recent months, newly named 57310 UK Railtours eases past the aggregates terminal at Trowse working 5Z57 1525 Yarmouth C.H.S. to March Up Yard Gbrf, conveying a rake of Eastern Rail Services Mark 2 and 3 coaches. The service was routed via the loop in Trowse to allow 1K76 1448 Stansted Airport to Norwich to arrive into Norwich, while 1P53 1630 Norwich to London Liverpool Street then used the down main to Lakenham to avoid a conflict after the single line section.
Rail Operations Group 37608 Andromeda slows for Trowse while working 5P00 0945 Broxbourne to Norwich C.Pt. T.&R.S.M.D, hauling failed Greater Anglia 745109. The 12-car Stadler unit had failed the previous day while working 1B97 1745 Stansted Airport to Liverpool Street, only reaching Broxbourne, from where it was rescued by the vintage English Electric loco.
This well researched and produced booklet was issued by the soon to be nationalised London & North Eastern Railway to celebrate the centenary of the Yarmouth and Norwich Railway, one of its predecessors, in 1944. This is a second and revised edition.
It was written by the well known railway historian George Dow A.M.Inst.T. who worked for the LNER and its successor British Railways and was one of a series of such booklets issued by the LNER at the time that commemorated various events in LNER and associated company histories. It contains numerous historical illustration and a map of the Norfolk railways drawn by the author. He had a background in such cartography. In the late 1920s he drew various line diagrams for both the LNER and LMSR and these, it is felt, helped in part to inspire Henry Beck and his London Underground diagram of 1931/33.
The map shows the coverage of lines surrounding Norwich, the city's stations, and the multiplicity of companies. These were variously amalgamated primarily into the Eastern Counties Railway although the Midland & Great Northern Joint was also involved. The map shows lines open by 1852, lines and stations opened since 1852 and stations that had already closed or be renamed. There would be many falling into the latter category in the coming decades as the county's railways faced the rationalisation of British Railways.
Rescanned at higher resolution with better colour and image quality
On several weekends in the early part of 1986 Norwich station was closed to allow track rationalisation and resignalling ready for the fothcoming electrification.
In order to provide some kind of service for passengers, the former station at Trowse was temporarily re-opened during the work, having originally closed in 1939, but with platforms and station building surviving. Some Liverpool Street workings ran to/from Yarmouth via the Wensum avoiding curve past the still new Crown Point depot, while others started and terminated at Trowse.
In this shot we see 31 417 arriving from Crown Point with the 15:30 Norwich - Liverpool Street. A Metro Cammell Class 101 unit awaits departure to Lowestoft in the adjacent platform
The photographer and date the photo was taken are unknown. A digitally restored image from an unsharp and underexposed original negative in my collection.
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May Gurney , Trowse
Running 61 minutes late, Rail Adventure HST power car 43484 leads sister 43465 through Trowse Junction while working 5Q64 1454 Norwich Crown Point to Mid Norfolk Railway Siding, delivering an impressive rake of 12 ex-Great Western Castle Mark 3s for storage. The coaches had been in store at Crown Point since late June.
66605 passes through March with the Trowse to Tunstead stone train.
70000 Britannia looks magnificent powering through the site of Trowse Upper Junction where the branch to Norwich Victoria left the Great Eastern Mainline, working 1Z71 1706 Norwich to Windsor & Eton Riverside. The Steam Dreams-operated charter had been significantly delayed on the outward journey after issues with the overhead line equipment at Forest Gate, arriving in Norwich 96 minutes late. 47805 Roger Hosking MA 1925-2013 was on the rear.
Bristol LS5G - ECW DP43F
New Midland General Omnibus Company ( 223 ) during May-1955 . Joining this Fleet in March-1969 .
XNU414 is uploading a queue of passengers in Norwich City Centre , prior to heading out to Trowse ( Crown Point ) on Route 93 .
April-1971
86 222 Fury nears its destination at Trowse with the 14:30 Liverpool Street - Norwich
Whitlingham Hall aerial image - outside Norwich. Built for bank owner: Sir Robert Harvey, bought & extended by the Colman family, then a hospital & now multiple homes #WhitlinghamHall #aerial #image #Norfolk #aerialphotography
Norfolk aerial image
Whitlingham Hall aerial image - outside Norwich. Built for bank owner: Sir Robert Harvey, bought & extended by the Colman family, then a hospital & now multiple homes #WhitlinghamHall #aerial #image #Norfolk #aerialphotography
Norfolk aerial image
Whitlingham Hall aerial image - outside Norwich. Built for bank owner: Sir Robert Harvey, bought & extended by the Colman family, then a hospital & now multiple homes #WhitlinghamHall #aerial #image #Norfolk #aerialphotography
Norfolk aerial image
Prior to the track changes at Trowse associated with the electrification 31 444 would be working wrong line, but this was now the norm.
The working is 1E85, the 10:45 Liverpool - Yarmouth
