Author: Steph Gillett
Publisher: Through Time
ISBN: 9781445672489
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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Steph Gillett documents the history of this fascinating line, marking the sixtieth anniversary since its closure.

Author: Rob Shorland-Ball
Publisher: Pen and Sword Transport
ISBN: 1526790106
Category : Transportation
Languages : en
Pages : 199

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M&GNJR was a Midlands to East Anglia railway linking towns and villages like a patchwork knitted together by clever business entrepreneurs. It started in the 1850s when there was intense rivalry between railway companies and two rich and powerful companies – MR and GNR – were behind the project. ‘Joint,’ added by a Special Act of Parliament in 1893, confirms this patchwork was the amalgamation of several small independent railway companies plus the MR and GNR. The company was especially interested in stealing a march on the Great Eastern Railway (GER) which believed it was the principal railway serving East Anglia. Poppyland was the nickname created for the Cromer area of the Norfolk coast by Clement Scott, an influential poet, author and drama critic of The Daily Telegraph who first visited in 1883. He claimed that ‘...clean air laced with perfume of wild flowers was opiate to his tired mind.’ Scott publicized his delight and many rich families, and their servants, visited too; the railway business entrepreneurs saw a growing market for their patchwork. The M&GNJR grew eastwards to Norwich, Great Yarmouth, Lowestoft and attracted passengers from the Midlands and London. The M&GNJR grew – then withered as cars, buses, overseas travel offered new holiday options. Closure came on 28 February 1959 but North Norfolk Railway – the Poppy Line – has survived as a heritage line so the Joint is not forgotten!

Author: Steph Gillett
Publisher: Amberley Publishing Limited
ISBN: 1445672499
Category : Photography
Languages : en
Pages : 183

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Steph Gillett documents the history of this fascinating line, marking the sixtieth anniversary since its closure.

Author: John Earl
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780995514218
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 212

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Author: Peter Swinger
Publisher: Amberley Publishing Limited
ISBN: 1445699656
Category : Transportation
Languages : en
Pages : 161

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A highly illustrated survey of the glory days of steam in Essex, Sussex, Norfolk and parts of Cambridgeshire.

Author: Douglas Bourn
Publisher: Bridge Publishing
ISBN: 9781869831332
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 166

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Railway histories are always popular and the continued regard for heritage railways around the UK highlights the nostalgia the industry evokes. Inevitably many concentrate on the locomotives, lost stations and lines that crisscrossed the region. What has often been missing have been the stories of the individual railway workers and the conditions under which they worked, despite some valuable autobiographies and memoirs of railwaymen who worked in the area. This volume aims to address this gap, bringing to life stories of railway workers within a context of the changing nature of the industry from the mid-nineteenth century to the present day.Heavily influenced by his personal and family memories, Douglas Bourn draws on available memoirs, alongside other evidence from railway magazines and local and regional newspapers, to provide the reader with an introduction to the fascinating story of railways in the region. The book takes readers on a historical journey starting with the creation of the first railways in East Anglia, via the growth of a network that promoted and served the agricultural, industrial and tourist development of the towns throughout the three eastern counties, and ending with their almost inevitable decline, as transport needs changed in the post Second World War period.

Author: Arthur John Francis Wrottesley
Publisher: Trafalgar Square Publishing
ISBN:
Category : Transportation
Languages : en
Pages : 232

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Author: Joseph Clayton
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 1409248429
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 290

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The land enclosures made by wealthy landowners provoked the Norfolk Rising of 1549. The country people, dispossessed of their holdings, were driven to revolt. This book looks at the cause of the revolt and examines the role of Robert Kett and ultimately his execution.

Author: Nigel Digby
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Mersey Railway
Languages : en
Pages : 3

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Author: Peter Smith
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Transportation
Languages : en
Pages : 168

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