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词条 Wells and Fakenham Railway
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  1. Construction

  2. The route today

  3. References

  4. Further reading

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The Wells & Fakenham Railway, was the northern part of the Wymondham to Wells branch in Norfolk, England. It connected the market town of Fakenham to the coast at Wells-next-the-Sea. It closed to passenger traffic in 1964 and to goods traffic in the 1980s.

Construction

The Norfolk Railway opened a line from Wymondham to Dereham, on the Norwich to Thetford mainline, in 1847, and a line from Dereham to Fakenham in 1849. The Wells and Fakenham Railway, incorporated in 1854, was formed by local landowners and some directors of the Norfolk Railway. The {{convert|9.5|mi|km}} Fakenham to Wells line opened in 1857 and a short branch to Wells Harbour was built in 1859. The line became part of the Great Eastern Railway in 1862.[1][2]

The line used diesel multiple units for passenger traffic from 1955. It was listed for closure in the Beeching Report and closed to passengers on 5 October 1964. Goods services continued until the 1980s.[1]

The route today

Part of the route has been reopened as the Wells and Walsingham Light Railway.[1] A section of trackbed from Walsingham railway station southwards to the village of Houghton St Giles is used as a public footpath called the Pilgrim's Way.

References

1. ^{{cite book|title=Dr Beeching's Axe: 50 Years on : Illustrated Memories of Britain's Lost Railways | author=Julian Holland | year=2013 | page=70 | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=zfJZcibqOa4C&pg=PA70 |publisher=David & Charles |isbn=978-1-44630-267-5}}
2. ^{{cite book|title=A Great Estate at Work: The Holkham Estate and Its Inhabitants in the Nineteenth Century|author=Susanna Wade Martins|year=1980|page=62|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=drc8AAAAIAAJ&pg=PA62 |publisher=Cambridge University Press |isbn=978-0-52122-696-7}}

Further reading

  • {{cite book |first=Stanley C. |last=Jenkins |title=The Wells-next-the-Sea Branch via Wymondham and Dereham |publisher=The Oakwood Press |edition=2nd |year=2011 |isbn=978-0-85361-712-9}}
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