Attleborough station action

[Chris Janisch]

Attleborough is a quiet little town about 40km from Norwich in East Anglia. It lies on the main line from London Liverpool Street. Some expat friends of ours have taken up residence here, and we spent 2 days in this peaceful town. Each evening I cycled down to the station to watch the locals and expresses coming through. The station is fully hand-operated, with semaphores and level crossing gates being controlled by the Network Rail signalman on duty. I was able to photograph the workings and have a good chat to the operator, who surprise surprise is a steam buff! Apparently steam specials occasionally come this way. The sets seen were DMU multiple sets in different shades and colours.
Long live semaphores!

[Kevin Wilson-Smith]

Very pleasant!