Cromer to Sheringham and Holt – Hastings DEMU cab ride – 23 July 2016

Weybourne Wanderer: Cab view from Cromer to Sheringham and along the full length of the North Norfolk Railway to Holt. Filmed from our preserved Hastings DEMU on Saturday 23 July 2016, during the outward leg of our Weybourne Wanderer railtour.
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In this video we cover all 9 miles of track that still exist from the Midland & Great Northern Joint Railway’s 180-mile network. We begin at Cromer and run the 3 miles and 50 chains to Sheringham, beyond which the line was closed by BR in 1964. A replacement station was opened in 1967, slightly closer to Cromer, which allowed the level crossing in the town to be closed. However, the original Sheringham station, and the next 5¼ miles of the old line as far as Holt, have been preserved and form the North Norfolk Railway. The closed level crossing was re-opened for occasional (less than one day per month) use in 2010, re-linking the preserved line with the national railway network.
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We are treated to the spectacle of the level crossing being opened to rail traffic for us, with the barriers consisting of temporary roadworks-style barriers and an impressive throng of onlookers present (see below for a link to the procedure for use of this crossing). Once we’ve called at the old Sheringham station, we proceed along the steeply graded line, through Weybourne and past three fine signal-boxes to the current terminus at Holt.
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Video footage is from an unattended unmonitored forward-facing cab-camera in motor coach 60116 Mountfield. Audio footage is mostly recorded in the rear cab, because of route-conductor and driver conversing – save for a brief burst at Sheringham that comes from the video-camera’s feed.
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0:00 – CROMER station
1:50 – Cromer Junction
3:27 – Runton East
4:36 – Runton West
6:34 – West Runton station
9:06 – approaching Sheringham
10:52 – Sheringham station (National Rail)
14:03 – proceeding over the Sheringham East Level Crossing, onto the North Norfolk Railway
15:09 – SHERINGHAM station (North Norfolk Railway)
19:05 – departing Sheringham
27:18 – Weybourne station
30:23 – Kelling Heath Park station
34:51 – HOLT station
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Video, soundtrack and captions © Copyright 2016–2018 Hastings Diesels Limited.
https://www.hastingsdiesels.co.uk/
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Equipment: video by GoPro Hero3+ camera with suction-mount and extra batteries; audio by Sony ECM-MS907 microphone and MiniDisc MZ-R30 recorder; video production by Da Vinci Resolve (free).
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The railtour began at Hastings and ran via Tonbridge, Bromley South, Kensington Olympia and the North London Line to Stratford, then the Great Eastern Main Line via Colchester and Ipswich to Norwich; a reversal took us to Cromer where we reversed again. The return route was different, as after Norwich we ran direct to Ely and thence via Cambridge and Royston and up the East Coast Main Line to rejoin the outward route at Camden Road. The outward leg was video-recorded from Stratford to Norwich, however the presence of two members of staff in the cab and our lack of rear-cab audio for that long duration means that it will only ever be published as a silent cab-ride... and not in the immediate future.
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North Norfolk Railway – http://www.nnrailway.co.uk/
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Here is a link to an annotated extract from Network Rail’s Sectional Appendix:
https://www.dropbox.com/s/luljf4j217lz5zl/2016-07-23_Weybourne_sectional-appendix-extract_Cromer-to-Sheringham_annotated.pdf?dl=0
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Here is a link to the Sectional Appendix entry for operation of Sheringham East Level Crossing:
https://www.dropbox.com/s/n45rbucfty84em8/2016-07-23_Weybourne__Sheringham-transfers.pdf?dl=0
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Here is a link to a photo showing the signalbox diagram for Runton East Junction:
https://www.flickr.com/photos/pwayowen/29680507898

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