Overstrand railway station

Overstrand railway station was a station in North Norfolk on the Norfolk and Suffolk Joint Railway, serving the settlement of Overstrand.^[1] It opened on 3 August 1906 and was much used in the summer months by holidaymakers.^[2]

The station was host to a LNER camping coach in 1938 and 1939.^[3] Two coaches were also positioned here by Eastern Region of British Railways in 1952.^[4]

The station closed when this part of the line closed to passengers on 7 April 1953.^[2]^[5] Since 1959 the station has become a private house.

References

↑British Railways Atlas.1947. p.18
1 2Quick, Michael (2022) [2001]. Railway passenger stations in Great Britain: a chronology(PDF). version 5.04. Railway & Canal Historical Society. p. 349. Archived from the original(PDF) on 25 November 2022.
↑McRae, Andrew (1997). British Railway Camping Coach Holidays: The 1930s & British Railways (London Midland Region). Vol. Scenes from the Past: 30 (Part One). Foxline. p. 10. ISBN 1-870119-48-7.
↑McRae, Andrew (1998). British Railways Camping Coach Holidays: A Tour of Britain in the 1950s and 1960s. Vol. Scenes from the Past: 30 (Part Two). Foxline. p. 50. ISBN 1-870119-53-3.
↑Hurst, Geoffrey (1992). Register of Closed Railways: 1948-1991. Worksop, Nottinghamshire: Milepost Publications. p. 8 (ref 0352). ISBN 0-9477-9618-5.

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