Caister Camp Halt was a railway station on the Midland and Great Northern Joint Railway which served the holiday camps near the

Norfolk Norfolk () is a ceremonial and non-metropolitan county in East Anglia in England. It borders Lincolnshire to the north-west, Cambridgeshire to the west and south-west, and Suffolk to the south. Its northern and eastern boundaries are the No ...

coastal town of Caister-on-Sea, England.

History

Opened by the Midland and Great Northern Joint Railway, the station was closed as a wartime measure before passing briefly to the

Eastern Region of British Railways The Eastern Region was a region of British Railways from 1948, whose operating area could be identified from the dark blue signs and colour schemes that adorned its station and other railway buildings. Together with the North Eastern Region ( ...

nationalisation Nationalization (nationalisation in British English) is the process of transforming privately-owned assets into public assets by bringing them under the public ownership of a national government or state. Nationalization usually refers to pri ...

in 1948 only to be closed by the

British Railways British Railways (BR), which from 1965 traded as British Rail, was a state-owned company that operated most of the overground rail transport in Great Britain from 1948 to 1997. It was formed from the nationalisation of the Big Four British rai ...

in 1959.

References

* * * Disused railway stations in Norfolk Former Midland and Great Northern Joint Railway stations Railway stations in Great Britain opened in 1933 Railway stations in Great Britain closed in 1939 Railway stations in Great Britain opened in 1948 Railway stations in Great Britain closed in 1959 Caister-on-Sea {{EastEngland-railstation-stub