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Overstrand railway station was a station in North Norfolk on the Norfolk and Suffolk Joint Railway, serving the settlement of Overstrand.[1] It opened on 3 August 1906 and was much used in the summer months by holidaymakers.[2]

The station building in 2008
The station building in 2008

The station was host to a LNER camping coach in 1938 and 1939.[3] Two coaches were also positioned here by Eastern Region of British Railways in 1952.[4]

The station closed when this part of the line closed to passengers on 7 April 1953.[2][5] Since 1959 the station has become a private house.

Preceding station   Disused railways   Following station
Cromer Links Halt   Norfolk and Suffolk
Cromer Line
  Sidestrand Halt

References


  1. British Railways Atlas.1947. p.18
  2. Quick, Michael (2019) [2001]. Railway passenger stations in Great Britain: a chronology (PDF) (5th ed.). Railway & Canal Historical Society.
  3. McRae, Andrew (1997). British Railway Camping Coach Holidays: The 1930s & British Railways (London Midland Region). Vol. Scenes from the Past: 30 (Part One). Foxline. p. 10. ISBN 1-870119-48-7.
  4. McRae, Andrew (1998). British Railways Camping Coach Holidays: A Tour of Britain in the 1950s and 1960s. Vol. Scenes from the Past: 30 (Part Two). Foxline. p. 50. ISBN 1-870119-53-3.
  5. Hurst, Geoffrey (1992). Register of Closed Railways: 1948-1991. Worksop, Nottinghamshire: Milepost Publications. p. 8 (ref 0352). ISBN 0-9477-9618-5.






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