The Wells and Walsingham Light Railway is a 10+1⁄4 in gauge heritage railway in Norfolk, England running between the coastal town of Wells-next-the-Sea and the inland village of Walsingham. The railwa
W&WLR Locomotive at Wells
Driver refilling the water tank of the Norfolk Heroine at Wells
Weasel at Walsingham in the 1990s, before rebuilding.
Wells & Walsingham Light Railway locomotive "Norfolk Heroine" entering Walsingham station, light engine.
Wymondham to Wells Branch
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The Wymondham to Wells Branch was a railway built in stages by the Norfolk Railway, Eastern Counties Railway and Wells and Fakenham Railway between 1847 and 1857. The railway ran from Wymondham in the
Wells and Walsingham Light Railway
…coastal town of Wells-next-the-Sea and the inland village of Walsingham. The railway occupies a four-mile (6.4 km) section of the trackbed of the former Wymondham to Wells branch which was closed to passengers in stages from 1964 to 1969 as part of the Beeching cuts. Other parts of this line, further south, have also been preserved…
A GER Class T26, a type often used on passenger trains to Wells before the Grouping, after which most such trains were operated by Claud Hamilton 4-4-0s.[page needed]
Visual effect of original double track restored near Wymondham Abbey.
Derelict remains of Dereham station in 1990.
Looking towards Wells, 1990s