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From what I understand the carpark has now been built on.

Love Hunstanton. Brings back so many memories of departed family members and travelling the steam trains from March station

I lived in Great Dunham in 1968 and biked to the station at Little Dunham and watched the line being ripped up. The biggest act of vandalism in this country since WW2. Funny how the man who orchestrated the closure of rural railways family made their fortune from Tarmac!

Thanks for a very interesting and informative slice of history,well put together 😊

Crikey, so that car park where I'd lock my bike to (as it has the ground anchors built in) was the station!

One hot sunday morning in July 1995, I walked from Kings Lynn to Middleton taking as many photos as I could, I once visited a lady who was living at a rented room at Narborough Station too

We sing to lose so much about heritage/ great film. Keep up the good work

Who knows if the Lynn and Dereham railway will be resurrected in some form. I am starting by fixing up Middleton Towers, who knows where we’ll go from there

What a brilliant video. The combination of then and now photos maps and satellite images is superb.

Lovely little film but very sad so little remains

So very sad to see this wiped from the earth. A very short sighted act of vandalism and it seems so very hard to put it right again :(

Sad the wonderful victorian hotel and station were lost to a awful new build and a car park some idiots on the planning board of back handers somehow must have concluded this was progress

Walked all the M&GN tracks in the 1970s, my gran lived at Briston. The track beds largely intact then. Not much left now.

As a three or four year old, on a holiday trip to Hunstanton I don’t think we actually got to the beach. We had to cross the bridge to get from where the car was parked , and little me insisted we stayed on the bridge to watch the trains. Wish I could do that today.

"Sporle station would *have* been situated somewhere along this part of the track bed." If you're going to use titles, please ensure they are grammatically correct. "have" and "of" do not mean the same thing. Not even remotely similar.

have stood in this spot many times..Never knew there used to be a turntable there

All gone all gone 😞

All that work, blood sweat and tears shed making all these railways and then just cast aside by these so called experts who thought nothing of what went into these monuments of graft

After all the closures of the railways it didn't save the money they'd predicted so they could've kept them open

There`s a piece written about it hanging on the end of one of the display shelves in Beers of Europe, having worked on the site for 10 years there`s no trace left visible on the field out the back, the ground was cleared a couple of years ago.

In all my years I had no idea there was once Setchey Oil fields.. again another great little piece of history.Thank you for sharing

The whole route needs reopening with 25kv ac electrification. Enough said. Being 70th Jubilee week this would be a tribute to HM Queen Elizabeth 2

I'm very impressed how you have blended the old maps into the satellite images. Great job!

It never happened and probably never will, but a decent East to West railway across Norfolk would have done wonders for the region. It was possible to get from Lynn to Norwich only via the tortuous routes shown- even worse today with a change at Ely. The A47 road is awful, and going West from Lynn, neither the A47 nor A17 are fit for purpose. Edit- P.S. I live near an abandoned Norfolk railway (which will remain abandoned because the supporters of its rebuilding couldn't produce a sensible engineering and business plan if it bit them on the backside).

Typical. Turn railways into car parks. How shortsighted and ridiculous 😡 . What a waste. They tell us to reduce omissions but close mass transit systems. Time to reassess people.

Absolutely superb! What's come is no improvement, sadly. 😒

Nicely produced, thank you!

Had a week's holiday staying in Narborough station back in 1988, when it was owned by a gentleman in London who let it out (after "approving" the takers!). The station master's house constituted a separate let at that time. Much more of the station and platforms was visible at that time from the road crossing than it looks like in your current photo. The last crossing keeper, a lady, still lived in the cottage next door, and she was the key-holder of the station let, so we had some chats with her about her times doing that job. Apparently, a BBC2 documentary had been made about the line shortly before closure, and she had been in it. All my efforts to try locating a copy of this film came to nothing. The station was in perfect condition, and still had the notice of closure in its original frame on the waiting room wall. Great memories, and a nice video, thank you!

Yet another disaster of Beaching removal of railways, o’h yes we would have a bus replacement service. Well we all know how long that lasted. Where’s the bus service between Watton and Thetford or Dereham. That railway service diapered like so many others.

Very Cleverly Blended

Beautifully done Thank you

The old maps give a very clear indication of why many country stations and railway lines lost out to local buses and then the motor car. Something that the Beeching was Illegitimate Brigade tend to forget.

Again, you tug my heart strings remembering the good old days. Thank you.

This was a great format for a video - just a shame it's a boring old car park!

This deserves more views. Really good videos, thanks.

Very interesting and well illustrated history of this old line, only marred by the poor english in the subtitles.

Been there many times with my grandma and grandad and somehow I knew it was originally a station

Brilliant piece of M&GN history

Great video

So sad

Fantastic video, always been interested in this line having grown up near Middleton Towers

Happy new year! 😀

Great vid, can you make wording a bit smaller? 🤪

Thanks for this! Brings back memories having grown up in Wymondhan about 70 years ago!

Thanks for this. Watched the last train go through Dersingham, think it was 1969.

Ah can't wait! Are you also going to do Melton Constable to Melton Mowbray via Clench Wharton and Twenty?

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Brilliant! Thanks!

Beautiful music, sad to see such “progress”.

What an evocative video, and the reason why TH-cam is so important. Thank you for posting.