 Hello, thank you for joining me. I'm at Norwich station today This is also known as Norwich Fort, but now it's the only station in Norwich So just plain Norwich. We're getting one of these trains to Stad La Fleur up to Sherringham To go to the Wells Harbour Minutes of Railway, which unfortunately is going to close soon So I'm kind of having to make a bit of an emergency visit, but first, I'm going to close you down on what these trains are like on the sides So these are the new units, which are on these lines replaced the sprinters It's quite unusual for the UK because there's a step up. So when I go on them, I like to sit I can't exactly call it upstairs, but I'll stare in one of these slightly raised tables I'm not such a huge fan of new trains, but I do like these ones. They're different. They're a bit more Exciting and they also seem to be quite well made other than some of the other new trains you've got, but the run really different thing about these ones Is that they have like a little, almost like a locomotive In the middle, which you walk through. So they're electric and diesel So on today's journey, it's only going to be running on diesel, which will come from here You can't class it as a locomotive really though because you can walk through. To me a locomotive has to be a vehicle Train, which you cannot walk through. If you have a look out the window over there, you can see That is what it looks like on the outside. So this is the space for bikes or wheelchair There's a toilet. That's funny. So there's another toilet There's two toilets on the train, but they're next to each other. I mean that's the one that would, you know, allow a disabled person Just excuse the pun, but bog standard toilet. So let's walk through There's another raised Raised up table. So I'll probably sit on one of them We'll just go outside and have a look at the front of the train. This is a free car unit some of them are four car units and I should also just show you while we're here. It's a bit windy Over there, that's the trains that work to Norwich. You've also got similar ones, which work to Danseyeb Except Danseyeb ones don't have first-class and then Haven't quite got rid of sprinters in the Norwich area because there's two 158s there and a 156 So there the sprinters which are used by East Midland Railway on their trains over to Liverpool Lime Street It's always confusing here because you've got trains to Liverpool Lime Street, London Liverpool Street So I wonder if you ever had London people ending up in Liverpool or Liverpool passengers ending up in London Charters I'll they wouldn't actually get to the station Well, they might realize when they're going through Fetford or Brandon that they're supposed to be passing through Chelmsford, Richwitch so on this train and Ride up to Sherringham where I've got to get a bus to get to Wells West Brunton and Sherringham. The next stop will be Worsted I've arrived here at Sherringham. We had quite an enjoyable trip up the line. We reversed at Cromer and Now I've got to go and find a bus Across the road, of course, is the North Norfolk Railway, which unless I have to wait for the bus I'm probably not going to do today because I've been told there aren't that many buses so really I do need to get to Wells to do the Wells Harbour Railway course. We can hear the diesel engine Not too loud though. Not as old as if it was saying an older loco-hauled diesel engine So yeah, I'd like to have done the Wells and Welchingham Railway today But if I was to do both really I would have needed to have come up here in the car Beyond here, the track does carry on to join up with the North Norfolk Railway It's only occasionally used and there's been cars parked on the track So if it's very very unlikely, we're gonna see a train going that way today I'm gonna start walking quite quickly now though because I can see a bus and it might just be my bus I suppose though if I do miss it and probably I'll probably go and watch a train on the North Norfolk Railway, but there's not that many buses That's the problem with up here. So I really do need to make it so Well, I'm not in there Next between the two railway lines Right, I'm gonna run ahead now and see if that is my bus. It might not be so I might be crossing for nothing, but Let me show. So, it's gone. So that was my bus I'll be waiting here for a while, but as I said We are at the home of the North Norfolk Railway Next to sea and it has just started to rain. The Harbour and the sea is that way So that is obviously where we're gonna head for to see the Wells Harbour Railway and have a trip on it I'll just cut my eye this way though, let's speak This green area. I have been to this town when I was little Because I've actually been a bit annoyed that we went to the beach But for some reason we didn't go on the railway I even remember being in the car and seeing the train going along So I've not been on the railway before I kind of wish we had though when I was a child, but this seems like a nice place So the problem though is with this railways, it's gonna close soon So that's why I've had to come up here today because if I don't do it this year May never get to do it You know, there's always a chance when they talk about closing railways. They might just be saved But you don't really know until it happens. So what we're gonna do We're going to walk off in that way through the town centre to find the little railway station There would have been a standard gauge railway here once Which the trackbed is now occupied by the Wells and Welsingham Light Railway Which is a video for another day. I'd like to do that today But I think with the buses, if I try and do that I might get stuck here It's a nice place to get stuck, but yeah, it's not really my plan to it Wells and Welsingham is not an emergency. I can do that anytime But Wells Harbour has to be done, well, as soon as possible really So I'm gonna walk off and find it But I'll just leave you with one last view of the village green Here we are, I've walked down through the town centre to Wells Harbour As you can see, all the boats, the old and the old warehouses, the modern pleasure boats You can actually get on a pleasure boat and go for a boat ride out to sea, I believe But I'm not gonna do that today because I said I've got to get that last bus back to showing them But we can have a look, you can see, I do like that old warehouse The loading bay coming right out over the road So you'd be able to load from the river into the warehouse way above the road That's quite cool, being out across there So the sea is that way, there's this bank all along here And from what I remember, the railway is on the other side of the bank So if you come up here, I can see some signs saying Norfolk Coast But that'd be a nice thing to do, oh yeah And there it is, the Wells Harbour Railway It says for Pinewood and the beach So I'm going to the beach today to get a train to the beach station So let's go down there, always getting windy, it's when you decide the bank And I'm gonna look at the station and we'll wait for the train to arrive But it really is getting windy So it might be one of these videos, I'll try and shout as much as I can when it's windy I've died down a bit now So let's have a look Railway is open today, costs £1.50 to go in, that's a single fare So I'm obviously going to want a return So as for this railway, it opened in the 1970s It's a tiny little turntable So it can obviously only accommodate a rather small loco So the train would pull in The loco will have to be parked on this turntable, which we shall see later All we've got to do now is wait in this wind and the drain The train to arrive So when I was a child And I came here, I was in a car like that, well not actually that sort of car I was in the Renault Savannah, but we drove down to the beach Like I said I remember seeing the train and being a bit disappointed that we didn't go on the train But I'm sure my parents had their reasons, it was nice awareness, it wasn't raining As for the railway then, the railway opened in 1976 There's nothing sheltered behind these trees while it rained You have to shelter under here and hopefully the train will be back soon So the railway opened in 1976 with a steam locomotive Funny enough, the steam locomotive, we saw a Hastings miniature railway On the last miniature railway, British episode so so, here is a picture of that locomotive So that locomotive ran here, but I had it in Hastings a couple of weeks ago So interesting, it seems to be literally going in the same tracks That locomotive So hopefully in 1976, but in 1978 it was closed for six months Because flooding damaged the railway And ever since then, it was then reopened in July of 1978 It's run a reliable service and as recently as I think 2014 It had a new locomotive built by Alan Keith, which I'm reliably informed is out today So that's probably the locomotive we're going to have It's really rather a shame they do want to close it It belongs to the Holcomb Hall estate And what they've said is that they would like to find a more safer Which I don't agree with and up-to-date solution to getting people to the beach So I'm thinking, well, you know, a miniature railway, it's very very safe It's like, you know, what goes wrong with a miniature railway It's certainly safer than the road Anything I can rethink of that could be better Is maybe if they built like a tramway of some sort But to me, if it's not going to run on rails Whatever the replacement's going to be, it's not going to be any better But let's just hope, you know, as has happened with various miniature railways I've gone to in the past that we're going to close It just ends up not closing So I really hope that is the case But I still felt I had to make this visit today Because if I didn't, the railway may close I've never had a ride on it or recorded it for posterity So I'm going to wait now The rain is sort of easing off And hopefully soon this train will arrive And I shall get the trip that I've waited to have since I was a child So the harbour itself was up there by the town And then you've got, right out there There's some holiday park as well So if you were staying at that holiday park You could get the train in and out the town One thing I'm going to do now though As soon as the railway goes to the beach I got completely soaked at the other end But the sun's come out now So I thought we might as well go and have a look At the actual sea itself Hopefully the weather will stay brightened up And might actually even dry off By the time I go to get the train back But then once we've been over to the sea We'll come along and have a ride back And may well be the last time I ever do this It does seem sort of rather strange That they've got such a new loco The loco we travelled behind the Duke I believe it was only built in about 2014 By Alan Keith So if the railway does close The Duke will have a career And have a miniature railway somewhere So it's not probably the last chance You ever get to ride behind that loco That will go on, it'll find you But let's just hope, you know Like has happened with other miniature railways That will freshen with closure It doesn't happen, but at this stage I don't know And if you do want to come and visit That's where you want To come quite soon The cool is if it could to us down To the beach That is probably why Because if we didn't want You know, I've got three sisters So to walk along here Four children and all the buckets and spades I can see kind of why We perhaps didn't get the train And although still I think we should have had a ride on it before But anyway So if the railway could Not close And be extended along here That could be, you know The solution to getting people to the beach In a better way But, you know They say they want to find something Better and more up to date The only thing I can think of is a tramway Or a different form of railway Narragage railway maybe I don't know, so I'll have to wait and see Anyway, I'm going to keep walking So I've seen the beach quite distinctly I remember building a stone castle here On this beach as a child And it's come back to me now There's this channel here I remember swimming in that The actual sea where the waves are breaking Is really quite a long way Lost this beach It's just how vast It's a big space So this is where the railway Nearly takes you to So what I'm going to do I'm going to have a bit of a walk Go back to the station and get the train Back to Wells Harbour Video went for a walk on the beach The sun came out and dried off Finally, they said, oh here comes the train Like I said, if you do want to come And visit this railway If you're watching this video In summer 2021 You've got till about mid-September I don't know the exact date But you haven't got long to come And see this railway You never know, things might change So you might be watching this In a gear's time and it might still be here It might be a different railway We might have a narrow gauge rail But as disappointed as I am the railway closing I will be interested What they do replace it with But I just somehow At the moment don't think it's going to be Anything quite as fun as a miniature railway Because really what is more fun Than a miniature railway to take you to the beach Back to the town centre to get the bus This is the harbour I hope you enjoyed this video though Thank you very much for watching Please do feel free to like, subscribe And comment Like do to get these videos out Walking around in the rain like this But anyway from the world's harbour railway Which I think does have the smallest turns