Sidestrand Halt was a railway station on the Norfolk and Suffolk Joint Railway which briefly served 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 village of Sidestrand from 1936 to 1953.

History

Much like its counterpart at Cromer Links Halt, Sidestrand consisted of a simple wooden platform capable of accommodating one coach. Hidden away at the end of a

public footpath A footpath (also pedestrian way, walking trail, nature trail) is a type of thoroughfare that is intended for use only by pedestrians and not other forms of traffic such as motorized vehicles, bicycles and horses. They can be found in a wide ...

, the station did not have any ticket-issuing facilities, and these could only be purchased on the trains. The halt had been opened in an attempt to increase revenues on the line by further exploiting the tourist potential of "

Poppyland Overstrand is a village (population 1,030) on the north coast of Norfolk in England, two miles east of Cromer. It was once a modest fishing station, with all or part of the fishing station being known as Beck Hythe. In the latter part of the 19t ...

", but in the event it only lasted seventeen years and closed along with the section of the line between Cromer and Mundesley in 1953.

References

* * * * Disused railway stations in Norfolk Former Norfolk and Suffolk Joint Railway stations Railway stations in Great Britain opened in 1936 Railway stations in Great Britain closed in 1953 {{EastEngland-railstation-stub