Midland and Great Northern Joint Railway Eastern Region of British Railways
Key dates
7 August 1877
Opened as Yarmouth
5 April 1883
Renamed Yarmouth Beach
2 March 1959
Closed[1]
Holiday express from Derby in 1951
Yarmouth Beach railway station served Great Yarmouth, Norfolk. It was opened in 1877 by the Great Yarmouth & Stalham Light Railway; it was taken over by the Midland and Great Northern Joint Railway in 1893, which had built a large network of track over East Anglia. It was conceived initially to transport holidaymakers from the Midlands to their destinations on the Norfolk coast; acquiring Yarmouth Beach station fitted into this grand strategy. The line was also dependent on use by local travellers.[2]
It lacked the direct routes of its rival at Yarmouth Vauxhall, instead taking a winding path across Norfolk without serving major towns.
Use of the line gradually began to decline and, by the 1950s, competition from the roads diminished passenger numbers. Yarmouth Beach and the line it stood on closed in 1959, along with most of the Midland and Great Northern Joint Railway network which was now in British Railways hands.
Following closure, the site was used as a coach station and the station buildings were demolished in 1986. It is now a coach and car park; some platform canopy supports are still extant, which mark its former location.[3]
Preceding station
Disused railways
Following station
Newtown Halt
Midland and Great Northern Yarmouth Branch
Terminus
^Butt, R.V.J. (1995). The Directory of Railway Stations, Patrick Stephens Ltd, Sparkford, ISBN 1-85260-508-1, p. 256.
^"Yarmouth Beach railway station". Berney Arms Web. 10 December 2017. Retrieved 30 November 2023.
^"Yarmouth Beach". Disused Stations. 27 May 2017. Retrieved 30 November 2023.
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