Cromer & the Forgotten Railway with a lot of Lost Secrets - Norfolk & Suffolk Joint #cromer

[Music] thank you [Music] foreign welcome to this brand new video and we're in Norfolk and we're going to follow a section A long section of the Norfolk and Suffolk joint Railway and this ran all the way from croma into connecting a lot of Seaside towns and villagers right around in a great big curve and joined up at North Walsham and it was open in two sections the north Walsham to munsley section was opened in July 1898 and a section from croma was also opened a little later on the 3rd of August 1906. so our route today we're going to follow all the way from croma to a little Seaside place called trimmingham and it will take in places such as chroma tunnel we've got chroma links Hull we've got over Strand and we've got side strand station before eventually arriving at trivingham and there are still many Railway related things to see along this route Bridges station old buildings along the way it was related to the railway but not so much as the place I'm stood right now just outside of croma I'm in a place called East London and we've got a beautiful little vital to let you have a look at so I do hope you've got a cup of tea or any beverage and maybe even a piece of cake of your choice because this is quite a long one railmaponline.com you can see that light blue line running from right to left across the map and that is the former Railway that we're going to be following today the pink one in the top left corner that is the active line between chroma and sharing them so the current chroma station is just here on the right hand side right on the edge of town you can see the line going off to North Walsham and back to Norwich heading off down to the bottom on the line towards sharing and going off to the left and our East runs and vitals are right about here and I'm going to jump over to the old maps and show you a little bit closer what it looks like and you can see Railway is under construction that's what it says just down here so this map is from around 1900 and that is quite fascinating to see isn't it and we've got our East runs and viaducts right at the top just here and chroma is also off to the right hand side too [Music] [Music] thank you [Music] this fire built has been out of use since 1964. it last Saw passenger work in in the late 1950s but continued to be served by Freight up until 1964 and it's made of blue brick throughout and it has got a lot of ballast on the floor look at that all over and there's even what looks like a mild post stuck in the ground there's absolutely no movement there so that's well stuck in there because potentially latter point of its life it was actually a single track formation now the figure part is run to vitals he's not the only one there's two I'm gonna show you it's down there you just make out an archway and this one is in fact in use and it's a very popular and busy Railway line linking sharing them through to croma North Walsham and on to Norwich and it's known as the bitten line so if I carry on to the far side of the vital which I will do but won't go beyond it will in fact join onto this active Railway line which again we go nowhere near let me turn you about and you can see where we're looking at so there's the end of our brick vial just there the two side walls and that's the end I got on [Music] foreign [Music] bed looks like heading off as if it was going towards chroma tunnel absolutely impossible to get down and I believe it also goes on to private land anyway I'm going to go down and have a look and show you what it looks like from Below foreign [Music] [Music] level this is top common books do close over there and the small village of East Brunson five arches look one two three four and the fifth one is just hidden out of sight you might have just seen a bit of footage from it I've got quite a few cobwebs in my face coming down there so that's not been very nice it's really really high up isn't it and it's really really nice so beautiful that it's still here and being looked after if we stand there look you can just make out the second one coming into shot the active line between sharing them and chroma there it is on the other side look this is on the coastal side and spin you around and there's the active line which you should have just seen a quick shot of a work and going over towards sharingham so each front and violence is not the only significant structure on this route I'm now going to leave here and I'm going to jump over to our next point of chroma where we're going to take a look at chroma tunnel the only standard gaze tunnel remaining in the whole of Norfolk so moving on I can show you exactly where we are this is the site of chroma tunnel so we're on the blue line going from left to right and you got the old chroma High station site just there there's nothing left there now and you can see where that green line goes down and joins onto the current active line off to Norwich and this is what Google Maps shows us today so the site of chroma High station is just on the left and the line Zips around in like a curve and if we go to the map overlay from around 1900 again you can just make out the root of the line and we'll go to the format from 1900 and again it says row is the course of construction so it's still being built when this map was done okay looking back at the a149 over Bridge right let's turn them off now beautiful blue brick lots of ivy on the opposite side so nice to actually get down here this is brilliant so hidden away let's have a little look further inside and I'll get the big light out and see if we can make it look a bit more illuminated quite a nice looking roof though pretty tidy a little bit of graffiti on the left and look at these concrete cable carriers wow oh well [Applause] all right see on the other side we've got ourselves a recess look I don't know if I mean there is not slightly there's about four of them it's beautiful to get down here [Music] foreign [Music] cable carrying arms so second recess nice and deep blue brick all the way along it's a great big pile of rubble up on this left hand side all the way which is it's like the ballast from the entire trackpad under the tunnel has been scooped over and just left there so as a sailor it's a very short tunnel we're almost at the other end around about 50 meters in length but I'm fairly pleased I've come down there's a lot of crap down here but it's lovely isn't it [Music] foreign [Music] just approaching out the other end now we've still got the concrete posts for the cable or signal carriers we've got the fourth and final recess quite a bit of graffiti at this end and as we come out of the other end it will show us the former track fed heading off towards over Strand and wondersly [Music] [Music] [Music] foreign [Music] Ed in 1923. it consisted of a single platform that costs around 170 pound a couple of benches running boards and just a couple of gas lamps its primary function was to try and encourage holiday makers to this line along this Coast but it didn't last very long and it basically mostly served the Royal chroma golf course so cut it off North reps Road the station was accessible along this track for turning you around you can see this part of the embankment just there look and it would have been a bridge going over northrop's Road and where there's now some houses over there we will be back on North Rex Road in a little while because we do get the opportunity to follow part of the track bed further up here northritz Road loops around and we'll pick it up again a little bit later on what I want to do now obviously if I can actually get up on top of this track bed look at that just there next to this Telegraph Pole dating back a bit isn't it right there's the embankment and I'm gonna try my best to get up shouldn't be too difficult get up there and see what it's like in both directions there we go so that's looking towards over Strand trimmington and Beyond and that is looking back at northrop's Road I'm gonna I think we could actually get to the very end of the embankment it's not as overgrown as you might expect there's a little bit of something there complete formation of some kind reinforced and there's an old coping Stone here a lot how about that and that's our view looking back with a bridge once went over northrop's Road and straight on towards chroma tunnel so that's pretty cool isn't it so we've got to follow the track bed as far as I can and see if there's anything hidden down there worth looking at [Music] [Music] foreign [Music] going forward you see it curves to the right hand side it's another one of these over here look hidden outside just showing you a little more history of it's been a railway line so I'm going to keep pushing on and I wasn't really expecting it to be a path like this to be fair never walked down there for once so we'll see how far it goes and I hope we do find some stuff [Music] so we've gone from that embankment look and we've got ourselves into a bit of a cutting on both sides relatively deep compared to what we were just done if you remember when we first got onto this section we was was quite high up no sign of anything Railway related other than the cutting itself there's nothing on the ground although it looks like there might be the remains of a bridge coming up interview just a little way down here let's come see foreign got the bridge abutments on both sides it must have been some sort of farm access or some sort of over bridge for pedestrians look at it coming up there and over there a lot and it was probably a nice quaint little single Arch and there's the other one on the other side Lot it might even be possible to get up on top you can see the retaining wall again just down the side um that side looks tricky we've got chroma Road on that side as well just to give you a reference of where we are I'm going to try another look around and see if I can actually no it looks a bit there yeah you can see basically how it would have gone and probably what it's been demolished overhead this is what has caused this infill to cause you know it's going downhill there and it slopes downhill on this side too so what a brilliant find that is that's really lost and hidden away isn't it I wonder how many people walk past that and just think it's no it's just just a piece of wall brick nothing nothing amazing so I've got to push on after finding that bridge which is just over there looks like it's going to take not quite a nice little curve away from croma Road situated over there and eventually there'll be a bit of an embankment before we meet up with North Rep Road Again sort of one of those just their looking Center of shop I've seen about five or six of them danced along the track bed originally starting on that side but they're appearing on this side we stopped curving around just now there's another one up here I'm going to actually try and get to it there we go it's good isn't it put all the pulleys on there around the side to see how high up we are as well in a bit of a cutting still we're going that way towards overstream [Music] [Music] foreign [Music] big tree look at that grow right out of this drain red brick drain that's gotta been there many many years hasn't it to get that high 70 lgas I'd say before we know it we're back in the cutting again beautiful behind it would have been a lovely Sight and Sound to have come along here back in the day wasn't it okay I'm coming out of that cutting now and I believe we're gonna lose the track bed for a little while the track bed does carry on but it goes on to a very steep embankment as it approaches northrop's Road and what they should be there is a bridge that went straight over and carried on the formation of the track bed but the bridge is gone the abutment I believe is still there but it's quite a high one so what they had to do was take the foot path around onto northrops Road and then it'll bring you around and go what would have been underneath that bridge upon getting to the end of that path where it zips away and takes you through the woods onto Northwest Road actually found another path which comes down alongside the actual very embankment which is just there though so I can take this down to northrop's Road and follow the formation up until the bridge that is no longer there [Music] foreign bridge abutment look rnw two three three zero still painted up just there so that's real sight isn't it that to see that it is still there I told you it was high up didn't it behind me the one is missing but it is bungalows which I have obviously not going to show you that because it is of course private property you can see on the other side I'm trying not to get the sun's glare been shot but yeah another piece of Railway history so let's stop along our North Norfolk Coast issues Railway line explore and walk is over strand I think you're gonna like this because over translation still has its buildings another little bits to accompany it to on the 3rd of August 1906 overstrand got its very own station and it only lasted until the 7th of April 1953 but it was very very busy in the summer months as you can imagine with this beautiful Coastline uh resounded all the way along Norfolk just there I believe part of this station is still here and I'm hoping we can just pop along here and see if we can find it and I haven't found it and it is a private residence now but it appears to be pretty much intact there's a underpass a road just below us with a nice blue brick Bridge handy underneath there would have been a path or a passage leading up with the canopy leading straight up to the platforms all this is still there and I'm going to turn you around and you will get so have a little look at this look at that so there's the bridge underneath just there it is private land we've got to respect that maybe one day we can come back and have a look but for now you can see the canopy covered platform access going up there look you can see the platform just on that side and you can just make out the other platform pretty much just behind or between the tree and that canopy and there are stationed buildings up there too I'm hoping that I can get some old photos of this to give you a good look at what it does look like but if you're watching this and you're the owner of this station this beautiful station I can have the opportunity to look around at a future date that would be very very much appreciated [Music] so back to the maps and we're going to look at the location of where overstrand station is because it's still there over strand is just over here on the right hand side it's all that built up here and you can just make out the beach but over strand station it's lovely and the buildings are still there we go to the overlay and you can see again the course of the Railway and the route and it is still saying it's under construction as it probably does all the way along as we zip along to the old map from 1900 and you can see there's even a section where the railway is missing I don't know why they've not drawn that in but that gives us a greater picture of where everything is can zoom in a little bit there looking you can just make out that bridge the access bridge for the station that I was telling you about look right inside and you can make out those white tiles on the inside and there is an iron cross section still present too I'm gonna see if we could see anything of the other side that is what it looks like on the other side it is fenced off but I can just make out those white tiles on the inside once more so that is a brilliant find so all credit due there for over strand Station closed in 1953 for keeping it alive in its present form again if anybody knows or you are the owner of that property you'd be happy for me to have a little look around that'd be so much appreciated next up we're going to carry on along croma road because the track bed that disappears and shoots over there and I'm going to see what I can find next according to Maps I think it might be a nice little bridge to look at next so I've had another quarter of a mile along the route from strand station I followed chroma Road over there and I've come on to this track because I think there might be a bridge or the remains of a bridge along Here track bed is down there in a very very shallow cutting over strand as I say it's about a quarter of a mile down there but we're going on a bit of a hill look and I think this track's going to take A Hard Ride and take us over the track bed and I'm hoping it's not even filled but it probably is let's go find out [Music] so about this eh both walls are still present coping stones on top and is that overgrown look at the trees these trees are coming all the way from track bed level that is the most ultimate overgrown Railway you'll probably ever come across I can point the camera through and you could just just see right down there but it is a jungle and it is also unfilled I can see it's in the field I've got to imagine it's the same on the opposite side it does appear to be doesn't it we go towards side of croma road where we've just come from the walls are intact right so after finding that beautiful beautiful little Relic not much of it left but it is it's still there and as long as it's still there that little bit of reminder of the Railway history still exists back onto chroma Road I'm now going to head off towards side strand but also once had its very own station but I believe other than like over strand there is nothing left of this at all okay about halfway between overstrand and side strand I've took a public footpath in the direction of the track bed again I think I found something really really cool [Music] now this was very much unexpected it is just a footpath whatever it used to be form access headed up towards north reps I don't know but look at it blue brick trees on the side wall in the coping stones but it's all still there look you've got a great big crack down the side which has probably come from what looks like a great big oak tree just there and the archway is absolutely unreal um let's have a look through the other side nice little bit of an echo a little bit of a drain exit at the bottom and I'll reverse you out look at that look at that brickwork that's the thing of beauty isn't it and all down the other side you've got the Ivy the Reeds and the weeds all hanging down bet it's unlikely I have a look this way if I can get on top of that so there's no way up there and that looks pretty Impossible Too I think I might have found a way up there's your Bridge there look if the following this track up may be able to get around and get on top for our room is up here looks like it's going to be a bit spiky but not impossible let me try let me try just don't want nettles in the face there we go and that is as close as I'm going to get we've got the side wall on the coastal side of this bridge the other one you might just be able to make out in center of shot but it's completely overgrown so the track bed goes back towards over Strand and chroma in that direction and size strand would have been over the bridge we've just been looking at which is there I'm going to make my way carefully back down to the foot path there was something at the bottom of here I want to show you as well look at that nice little reminder and we saw these earlier on the first part of this walk didn't we yeah the chroma halt station [Music] foreign [Music] but before that there's a little bit of the embankment of the abutment it Still Remains look at this the embankment's gone but there's an abutment you can just make out as you slide around here and through here apologies for the wind you could just bake it out through their lot and it would have been a bridge going over there where the embankment continues just there and remarkably as we call away from Top Road where I've just shown you where that bridge used to be it appears you could actually get up onto the trackpad look at this all the way to the top what we're gonna see having a bit of a run yeah there we go a nice bit of trap bed embankment to walk and that is the view looking back towards Top Road where we was just stood and over Strand and back onto chroma this is quite a pleasant surprise let's see how far we can get along here [Music] [Music] foreign nothing that resembles a railway along the same bikeman it is worth pointing out that excuse the agricultural equipment down there that it is a very very high embankment that goes a very very long way down it's one of the highest I've been on for a very very long time look how tall the trees are on the other side pretty much the same let's find a little gap for you look at that there were no trees there and a lot of snow it'd be perfect for sledging that's how steep and deep these embankments actually are so that's my view going forward look I mean it's beautiful but it doesn't look like a railway apart from the obvious shape of the embankment and it's worth reminding you again the manhowers and money it must have been plowed into even just creating this stretch of high embankment when you think this section didn't open until 1906 and it was gone by 64. that's less than 60 years that this line was active it seems such a waste so evidence of a former Bridge or maybe the soil and the embankment has just been removed to be put somewhere else but it does suddenly just drop down here we've got a holiday park on the right hand side and we're going to drop down and it's not like it's as if a bridge was here because there's only fields on the opposite side it's not like there's a track or Trail or Farm access [Music] foreign [Music] [Music] just up there and it's very very narrow single Whip Road lock and I found this beautiful Bridge three archers look at this just nestled away had hidden down here that looks in great condition look at those it's a great big crack up there let's take you through the other side looks really good underneath and yeah there we go there's the view looking the opposite way look at the old drain pipe there look that's brilliant had to get on that side that's great isn't it you know what's next don't you we've got to see if we can get on top little pheasant though here we go look at this beauty so now at the top I can actually show you something possible maybe not Direction back where we just came from used to be trimming and station opened in August 1906 and shutter believed in 1954. it used to have two platforms and did indeed also serve a lot of Tourism as well as local traffic and farm at this side we've got this beautiful Bridge it's very very high up and it's even got recessed on both sides they look like they're staggered as well let's go and take a look so still got the coping Stones right it's actually Concrete On Top look like it was on that previous Bridge we saw earlier on and then it's blue brick lined throughout not as overgrown as it could have been it's more just grassy and nettley let's take a look at this first little recess look that's pretty smart isn't it I mean you've got to say that this must have a lot of topsoil on it because there's no sign of any ballast and the grass is quite spongy because I I do find these brick walls very very low so you could easily stand there and fall over that's RAF trimming them just over there that you can see on the other side slightly staggered we've got another one again I'll just say again if I was to stand here there's not a lot of protection on that wall if you was um taken aback by a train speeding past definitely a single track width though isn't it that's something else to note so this right here this is trimming and it appears to be a smaller Community than the over strand area and the curve of the Railway let's jump to the overlay again and you can see the railway is just here again under course of construction and if we look close enough on the full map we can make out where the station is because it appears that they've even drawn in the island platform and a small Violet we've found well where's that it's right here and the railway is again course of construction that is absolutely fascinating to see that on these Maps I've never used any Maps before where it's actually showed this [Music] I'm moving further along we've got the second recess on the left-hand side on the coastal side of this bridge you'll notice a lot of the blue brick coping stones are in fact missing off the top whether we could see if they've fell over and gone no there's no trace of them down there whatsoever but they could have been collected up if they'd hit the embankment to roll down into the road and taken away other side second recess and all the coping stones are intact and we get to the other end lock and it's a concreted end section once again so a red brick down there at the bottom see if we can just have a poke around here and get it from a different angle oh there's no cobwebs there we go look at that fine structure that is isn't it and that down there is our track bed off towards munsley which would be the next station stop along this route but we're not doing that today that's it we've come to the very end of part one of this route of the issues railway from chroma to Trivium today I hope you've enjoyed it I'm gonna have a nosy down there I don't think I'm going to see anything and we'll pick this up in a later date thank you very much for watching if you like your dishes Railways all history um there's another one I've done in Norfolk which is just done trimmingham Beach have a look for that I'll put a link at the end and I'll make it as the suggested video at the end it's absolutely astonishing take care see in the next one bye [Music] foreign [Music] [Music] thank you [Music] [Music] [Music] foreign [Music]

Channel: Trekking Exploration

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Keywords: disused railway lines, disused railway, newark on trent walk, railway walk, abandoned railway, closed railway, trekking and towpaths, disused railways uk, disused railways, exploration, norfolk, cromer, overstrand station, sidestrand, station, cromer tunnel, railway tunnel, east runton viaduct, tunnel explore, cromer links halt, norfolk disused railway, trimingham station, trimingham, cromer station, north norfolk railway, east runton, steam trains, norfolk suffolk joint railway

Id: Fsihe2b1Wrc

Length: 41min 56sec (2516 seconds)

Published: Mon Nov 07 2022