Station Name: NORWICH CITY

[Source: Glen Kilday]

Norwich City Station Gallery 8:
February 1977 - May 2018


The north end of the east bay platform in November 1977.
Photo by Mark Dufton

Looking nortrh-west across the bay platforms from the east bay in November 1977.
Photo by Mark Dufton

This is approximately where the entrance to Norwich City station stood. By May 1984 the extensive business park that occupies most of the former railway land had been largely completed, Station Road obliterated, subsumed under a new dual carriageway and roundabout.
Photo by John Mann

Nature had taken over the undeveloped parts site of Norwich City station by February 2009 when this photo of the bay platform was taken.
Photo by Ashley Dean, reproduced from Geograph under creative commons licence


In 2012 ‘Friends of Norwich City Station’ had discovered remains of the infrastructure and began to dig them out and record them. This image, from March of that year, shows the facing of the east bay platform beside Marriott’s Way cycleway that had not long been completed on the former track-bed north of the city.
Photo from Norwich City Station Preservation Group / FONCS
The dug-out remains of the east bay platform at Norwich City in the summer of 2012.  A couple of abandoned sleepers have been uncovered.

When the bomb-damaged engine shed at Norwich City was replaced in 1944 it was reduced from three roads to two and shortened considerably.  In 2012 the Friends of Norwich City Station dug out the engineering-brick floor of the replacement shed and uncovered the filled-in pits.  The concrete posts that supported the steel posts that carried the main structure of the building can be seen, the
steelwork removed.
Photo from Norwich City Station Preservation Group / FONCS

The camera position is immediately to the right of the location of the station portico in May 2018.  Station Road, behind the camera, is no more and Barn Road, as now extended, runs, more or less, through where Norwich City station entrance stood.
Photo by Glen Kilday

Around 2012 ‘The Friends of Norwich City Station’ carried out some investigative work at the site and uncovered some surviving remains of the station.  This is the facing of the east-side bay platform as it was in May 2018, with nature again taking over.
Photo by Glen Kilday

The camera is on the bay platform, east side, of Norwich City station looking northwards away from the city in May 2018.  Some large trees that had grown up since closure have been recently felled
Photo by Glen Kilday

At the east side of Norwich City station site the engine shed lay alongside the river. It was the second shed on the site: the first was damaged beyond repair in enemy air raids in April 1942. The engineering-brick flooring of the replacement shed was not removed after final demolition and lies hidden in the woods in May 2018.
Photo by Glen Kilday

 

 

 

[Source: Glen Kilday]




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