Norfolk and Suffolk Joint Railway

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GER Coat of arms
GER Coat of arms

The Norfolk and Suffolk Joint Railway (NSJR) was a British joint railway company. The company was grouped into the London and North Eastern Railway in 1923.

The NSJR was owned by the Great Eastern Railway and the Midland and Great Northern Joint Railway and consisted of two distinct sections: a line between North Walsham and Cromer via Mundesley, and a coastal route running from Gorleston to Lowestoft. Neither has survived apart from a 1.5 miles (2.4 km) stretch just south of Cromer which forms part of today’s Bittern Line.

The route of the section from Gorleston-on-Sea northwards to the junction for the line to London is now used by the A12.

NSJR Coast Route
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Yarmouth South Town
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Line to London
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Line to Yarmouth Beach
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Gorleston North
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Gorleston-on-Sea
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Gorleston Links
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Hopton-on-Sea
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Corton
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Lowestoft North
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Line to Norwich and Ipswich
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Lowestoft Central

[edit] Preservation

A Norfolk and Suffolk Joint Railway signal box, formerly at Laundry Lane near Lowestoft, is to be rebuilt at East Dereham on the Mid-Norfolk Railway.