Recorded on the 23rd August 1985. This DVD takes you on a trip in a brakevan from Norwich (Thorpe) Station to the Norwich Victoria coalyard. We then make the return trip picking up wagons from Trowse on route. Victoria served as a coal concentration depot for many years, closing in 1986. This chapter has been remastered from VHS tape.
Chapter 2.
A series of pictures featuring the Victoria branch (ran as a slide show), taken in the 1980s.
Chapter 3.
Recorded in 2009 using a professional equipment. The trackbed is now a public footpath called the ‘Lakenhan Way’. Starting at Sandy Lane we walk the 1¼ miles of the Lakenham Way, to what is now a car park for Sainsbury’s.
Footage from 2009 & 2010 featuring 9F 92212, 30777 ‘Sir Lamiel’, 44767 ‘George Stephenson’, 1982 ‘Ring Haw’, J15 65462, GWR 5619, N2 1744, 3440 ‘City of Truro’, GWR 6619, N7 69621. An atmospheric look at the North Norfolk Railway, including footage from the footplate of Black Five 44767.
Chapter 1. Riverside Road.
We see some of the surviving FLFs stopping for passengers and running alongside the River Wensum. They are augmented by one or two VRs on the 501/509 group services, and we have our first glimpse of one of three green VRs on loan from Eastern National.
Chapter 2. Prince of Wales Road.
The FLFs are much in evidence, together with VRs and a Leyland National.
Chapter 3. Castle Meadow.
Now we watch the Saturday morning activity featuring FLFs, VRs of various vintages and colour schemes, Leyland Nationals and a solitary RL, by then very much a rarity. The buses mingle with motor cars, pedestrians – and a number of bus enthusiasts – in this busy City centre thoroughfare.
Chapter 4. Grapes Hill.
It is getting on for mid-
Chapter 5. Dereham Road.
The light is fading as FLF 552 (JNG 552D) heads out of the city on the way to Costessey in the late afternoon. By this time it was the only FLF remaining in service. We follow it to the Richmond Road terminus, where the conductor, ticket machine around his neck, changes the destination blind for the next eastbound trip to the Heartsease estate. The bus then follows us back along Dereham Road, we catch up with it again on Prince of Wales Road.
Chapter 6. Heartsease Lane.
It is now dark as we follow FLF 552 along Heartsease Lane as it continues its journey to the Sale Road terminus on the Heartsease estate.
Chapter 7. Bus crew talk to us.
View a selection of still images of the FLF, while in very blustery conditions the
crew of 552 tell us of what they believe will be the last workings of the FLFs. We
then watch as 552 departs, leaving us to make our way home and the crew to take 552
on one more cross-
Chapter 8. Evening departures from the bus station.
A visit to the bus station later that evening to see the last workings of the day, finds the blue ‘Phoenix’ VR taking over duties once performed by the FLF.
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and runs for 45 mins. Contains 80+ photographs from 2001 and movie footage from 2011 being
compared with 1970. Contains some extra content from 1970 that was not on the original CD.
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Chapter Order
1. The Yarmouth to Lowestoft Line (before closure).
2. Some of the paperwork from the line (including tickets).
3. Retracing footsteps (compares 1970 with 2001 & 2011 movie footage).