Bure Valley Railway

The East Norfolk Railway’s branch from Wroxham to Aylsham opened in 1880 and lost its passenger trains on 15 September 1952, though freight through Aylsham carried on until 1982. The 15-inch-gauge railway laid on the trackbed in 1990 runs beside a footpath for its whole nine miles, with halts at Coltishall, Buxton and Brampton. Its seventeen bridges include a 105-foot girder span over the River Bure at Buxton, and at Aylsham it passes under the A140 bypass in a tunnel.

Stations

1. 0 kmHoveton and Wroxham
2. 4 kmColtishall
3. 9 kmBuxton
4. 10 kmBrampton
5. 14 kmAylsham

The stations OpenStreetMap maps along this line, in order along the line as drawn here, with the distance along it. Not every train stops at every station.

Along the way

• Wroxham, on the Broads
• Coltishall
• The girder bridge over the Bure at Buxton
• Brampton
• The tunnel under the A140
• Aylsham

How this line was checked

• Line drawn from OpenStreetMap relation 1966414: the same nodes OpenStreetMap holds for this railway, thinned to within under 25 m of them
• Checked against OpenStreetMap: the whole line lies on real track, a median 4 m from it
• Wikipedia has an article for this line

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