Yarmouth Beach railway station

Yarmouth Beach
Location	Great Yarmouth, Great Yarmouth England
Grid reference	TG528081
Platforms	3
Other information
Status	Disused
History
Original company	Great Yarmouth & Stalham Light Railway
Pre-grouping	Midland and Great Northern Joint Railway
Post-grouping	Midland and Great Northern Joint Railway Eastern Region of British Railways
Key dates
7 August 1877	Opened as Yarmouth
5 April 1883	Renamed Yarmouth Beach
2 March 1959	Closed[1]

Holiday express from Derby in 1951

Yarmouth Beach railway station was a railway station serving Great Yarmouth, Norfolk. It was opened in 1877 by the Great Yarmouth & Stalham Light Railway. In 1893 it was taken over by the Midland and Great Northern Joint Railway which had built a large network of track over East Anglia, initially conceived to transport holidaymakers from the Midlands to their destinations on the Norfolk coast. Acquiring Yarmouth Beach station fitted into this grand strategy. The line was also dependent on use by local travellers.^[2]

Use of the line gradually began to decline and by the 1950s competition from the roads diminished passenger numbers. Yarmouth Beach and the line it stood on closed in 1959 along with most of the Midland and Great Northern Joint Railway network, now in British Railways hands. Following closure, the site was used as a coach station and the station buildings were demolished in 1986. The site is now a coach and car park.^[3]

It lacked the direct routes of its rival at Yarmouth Vauxhall, instead taking a winding path across Norfolk without serving major towns.

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• Yarmouth Beach station on navigable 1946 O. S. map
• Yarmouth Beach station on 1887 O. S. map with current overlay
• Aerial photograph from 1926 by Aerofilms

Coordinates: 52°36′40″N 1°44′01″E / 52.6110°N 1.7335°E / 52.6110; 1.7335