Rebuilding commenced, converted to 10+1⁄4 in (260 mm)
1982
Light Railway Order granted
1982
Reopened to public
Website
https://www.wwlr.co.uk/
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Wells & Walsingham Light Railway
Legend
Depot
Wells on Sea
Leicester lime works
The Midden Halt
Bridge 1731 - Warham Road
Level crossing
Warham
Bridge 1730
Bridge 1729 - works access (water pumping station)
Bridge 1728 - Wells Road
Wighton Halt
(1st station 1982-2005)
Bridge 1727
Clipper Lane
Wighton Halt
(originally Seton's Halt)
Farm occupation crossing
Farm occupation crossing
Sewage works
Level crossing
Barnards Cutting (reconstructed in 1999)
Bridge 1726 - Westgate Bridge (over Edgar Road)
Walsingham
The Wells and Walsingham Light Railway is a 10+1⁄4 in (260 mm) gauge heritage railway in Norfolk, England running between the 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 by the Mid-Norfolk Railway.
Despite its miniature dimensions, the Wells and Walsingham Light Railway is a "public railway", indicating that its operation is established by Act of Parliament. The original establishment of the preserved line was authorised by the Wells and Walsingham Light Railway Order 1982, the terms of which were altered under the subsequent Wells and Walsingham Light Railway (Amendment) Order 1994.[1] Prior to 1982 the 15 in (381 mm) gauge Romney, Hythe and Dymchurch Railway had traded as "The World's smallest public railway", a phrase sometimes quoted by the Wells and Walsingham Light Railway since the 1982 Light Railway Order.
^The Order is cited on the United Kingdom Government's legislation database.
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