NORTH NORFOLK RAILWAY - SHERRINGHAM
The railway’s headquarters is more than just a station. There is children’s activity coach, souvenir shop and a buffet, as well as an attractive booking hall and a ladies’ waiting room. The station is ideally situated for those wishing to take a stroll through the town and walk along the promenade before joining your train. Sheringham is also the location of the railway’s mainline rail connection.
Weybourne
Weybourne is a delightfully preserved country station and our locomotive and carriage maintenance and restoration centre. Enjoy a cup of tea from the buffet and take advantage of the picnic area to watch the trains come and go. Several walks are available through Weybourne Woods and Sheringham Park, with direct access to the Kelling Nature Trail, or walk down to the sea and take the coastal footpath to Sheringham.
Kelling Heath Park
This is our smallest station serving the Nature Trail and Kelling Heath Caravan Park. Owing to the steep gradient steam trains do not stop here on the journey to Holt but will stop if a clear signal is given to the driver on the return trip from Holt to Sheringham.
Holt- Holt is our western terminus and is just about 1 mile from the centre of this lovely Georgian Town. The ‘Holt Flyer’, a London Routemaster Bus service meets most steam trains in the summer. Whilst on the station be sure to drop in and see ‘Broad Sidlinch’ a 300 square foot model railway, which was featured in the Railway Modeller magazine.
The Poppy Line
‘Poppy Land’ is a term that was coined in the 19th Century by the poet and theatre critic Clement Scott and generally refers to the section of the North Norfolk coast from Sheringham to Mundesley.
Scott first visited the area in 1883 courtesy of the new railway line from Norwich to Cromer. His subsequent letters to the Daily Telegraph and his book Poppy-Land – Papers Descriptive on the East Coast (1886) helped to popularise this unspoilt section of Norfolk and many other Victorians followed in his footsteps.
‘Poppyland’ first appeared in Scott’s poem The Garden of Sleep – which was composed in Sidestrand churchyard.
Neath the blue of the sky in the green of the corn,It is there that the royal red poppies are born!Brief days of desire, and long dreams of delight,They are mine when my Poppy-land cometh in sight.
There is a memorial water trough to Scott in Cromer which bears the inscription:
‘Who by his pen immortalised PoppyLand’
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