Caister Camp Halt railway station
Caister Camp Halt | |
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General information | |
Location | Caister-on-Sea, Great Yarmouth England |
Grid reference | TG522134 |
Platforms | 1 |
Other information | |
Status | Disused |
History | |
Post-grouping | Midland and Great Northern Joint Railway Eastern Region of British Railways |
Key dates | |
17 July 1933 | Opened |
September 1939 | Closed |
June 1948 | Reopened |
27 September 1958 | Last day of services |
2 March 1959 | Official closure |
Caister Camp Halt was a railway station on the Midland and Great Northern Joint Railway which served the holiday camps near the Norfolk coastal town of Caister-on-Sea, England.
History
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In 1933 the Midland and Great Northern Joint Railway introduced a small railcar “Tantivy” to enhance the summer service on the line between Yarmouth and Stalham. This allowed the introduction of seven new halts, which saved people walking a mile or more to the nearest station. The new halts were for Newton, Caister Holiday Camp, California, Scratby, Little Ormesby, Potter Heigham Bridge and Sutton Staithe. Each of these was a request stop[1]
The station was closed as a wartime measure before passing briefly to the Eastern Region of British Railways on nationalisation in 1948 only to be closed by the British Railways in 1959.
Preceding station | Disused railways | Following station | ||
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California Halt | Midland and Great Northern Yarmouth Line |
Caister-on-Sea |
References
[edit]- ^ "M. & G.N. Innovation". Lynn News & County Press. England. 18 July 1933. Retrieved 11 August 2024 – via British Newspaper Archive.
- Butt, R. V. J. (October 1995). The Directory of Railway Stations: details every public and private passenger station, halt, platform and stopping place, past and present (1st ed.). Sparkford: Patrick Stephens Ltd. ISBN 978-1-85260-508-7. OCLC 60251199. OL 11956311M.
- Jowett, Alan (2000). Jowett's Nationalised Railway Atlas (1st ed.). Penryn, Cornwall: Atlantic Transport Publishers. ISBN 978-0-906899-99-1. OCLC 228266687.
- Jowett, Alan (March 1989). Jowett's Railway Atlas of Great Britain and Ireland: From Pre-Grouping to the Present Day (1st ed.). Sparkford: Patrick Stephens Ltd. ISBN 978-1-85260-086-0. OCLC 22311137.
52°39′35″N 1°43′40″E / 52.65961°N 1.72788°E
- Disused railway stations in Norfolk
- Former Midland and Great Northern Joint Railway stations
- Railway stations in Great Britain opened in 1933
- Railway stations in Great Britain closed in 1939
- Railway stations in Great Britain opened in 1948
- Railway stations in Great Britain closed in 1959
- Caister-on-Sea
- East of England railway station stubs