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30th January 2010  East Lancashire Railway

A cold, crisp, bright winters day, you can't beat it. A section of pictures uploaded of K4 61994 The Great Marquess at work on the East Lancs Railway. Click to view.

3rd January 2010  North Norfolk Railway

Happy New Year. Ring Haw was in charge of the last passenger trains before work begins to reconnect the NNR to the national network over the next two months. The date for your diary, 11th March, when (former Norwich stalwart) 70013 Oliver Cromwell will haul the first passenger train over Station Road since 1967. Click to view.

A brief introduction

32G was the shed code of the former railway village of Melton Constable (Norfolk's answer to Crewe!). Melton was a major railway junction on the former M&GN (Midland and Great Northern Joint Railway), with lines to Kings Lynn (South Lynn, and the Midlands), Cromer (Beach), Norwich (City) and Yarmouth (Beach). It was also home to the M&GN's locomotive, carriage and wagon work shops, where repairs to the company's locos and rolling stock would have been carried out. The M&GN was the first major casualty of the railway closures which took place in the late 1950s and early 60s. On 28th February 1959 the majority of the 161 mile M&GN network was closed. Melton, however, remained open until 1964 when the Cromer branch was cut back to Sheringham. If you drive through Melton today you would be forgiven for thinking if there was actually a railway there at all, let alone a once busy railway junction. However some the buildings still remain, including: the engine shed, water tower, goods shed. These are now utilised as part of Melton Constable Industrial Estate.

I choose the name 32G for my website because I have a particular fondness for the M&GN, and Melton Constable would have been the closest engine shed to my home had it still been there today. This site is predominantly a photographic website, and all the photos you will see have been taken by myself. I'm currently using a Canon 50D with a Canon 24–105 L IS USM lens. (Older photos were taken with Canon G2 before I upgraded to a Canon 300D using a Canon 28–135 IS USM lens or 18–55 EF-S.) All photos are copyright to Benjamin Boggis. Please feel free to view and download as many images for your own personal use as you wish, however they may not be reproduced under any other circumstance without permission from myself.