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English: County School Railway Station, near to North Elmham, Norfolk, Great Britain.
A railway line was opened as part of the Norfolk Railway's extension from East Dereham to Fakenham in 1849, but County School railway station was not built until 1886 to serve the private school from which it took its name, and following the opening of the Wroxham branch line in 1882. In 1903 the Norfolk County School became the Watts Naval School, the station name, however, remained unchanged. In 1994, the GER entered into discussions with the F&DRS, (a shareholder of the GER) which during discussions morphed into the Mid-Norfolk Railway Preservation Trust in order to attract EU Section 5b regeneration grant funding for the volume of repairs that were necessary for the line to be returned to use, and to apply for charity status. The first and only meeting was held at Hood and Voores Solicitors in Dereham, with the then Chairman of the MNRPT and Squadron Leader Andy Thomson representing the GER 1989 Ltd. It was agreed that the GER would concentrate on County School to Dereham section, and the MNRPT would focus on Dereham to Wymondham. Two distinct flavours of Railway Preservation were on offer, with the GER running steam locos from County School into Dereham, and the MNRPT preferring diesel traction on the Southern section of the line. Various methods of funding the costly repairs bill for all sections of the line were discussed, including lifting and replacing worn out rail and sleepers across the entire length off the line. When this plan was presented to the MNRPT committe however, they refused to accept their Chairman's agreement , Mr Barry Woodgett replaced the then Chairman, and in his first act he removed the MNRPT support for negotiations with the GER, and then made their own bid for the line. By Mid-1995, the Yorkshire Bank appointed an administrator to solve financial concerns with the Great Eastern Railway (1989) Ltd (the 999 year freehold lease of County School Station from Breckland Council had cost the GER £7,100 in 1989 backed by the F&DRS, but additional debt had built up on the back of the Yorkshire Bank loan to pay for the lease, against which the Bank were holding the lease as loan security). The Administrator agreed that railway ops as a means of earning revenue could continue at County School until he had decided how the debt to the Bank could be repaid (much to the annoyance of the MNRPT's new leadership). After nearly a year of bid and counter bid, Breckland Council out bid the GER and paid the Receiver £25,000 in June 1996 to recover the lease. The police were indeed called to County School in 1996 because some stock was moved to the former Lenwade Concrete works (not a breakers yard as previously reported) before proper ownership was established, afterwhich with the owners consent, they were moved again to the new MNRPT yard at Hardingham. No action was taken by the police as the accusations made against the GER were completely false. After the lease was bought back by Breckland District Council, they issued a threat to stop trains running at County School station, but took no action until Nov 1996, following noise complaints from a neighbour (who turned out to be a MNRPT member). Unbeknown to the GER because it was never declared by the Administrator, Breckland Council were now the new leaseholders and fully supporting the MNRPT despite telling the GER verbally in numerous phonecalls they were neutral. In November 1996 Breckland District Council brought in 24 hour security guards at the County School site in order to prevent the stripping of the property after having served an eviction order on the GER(1989) in mid-October. The GER ceased trading, the County School site closed and was, once again, abandoned to nature. During this unfortunate passage in the County School between 1993 and Oct 1996, the GER 1989 Ltd refurbished 2 steam locomotives and operated them safely and to the satisfaction of the Railway Inspectorate. Several thousand people visited the Station which was open throughout the year for free. During this period, County School Station was maintained immaculately by approximately 12 volunteers. Between Oct 1996 and the date the MNRPT took over the site, Breckland Council allowed the site to degenerate again, such that when the MNRPT took over in 1998, they found evidence of vandalism and obvious vegitation growth, a clear indication that the GER had indeed maintained County School properly up to the point they were evicted. At no point did the GER asset or property strip the County School site. In 1998 the MNRPT signed a Tenancy at Will with Breckland District Council to take over the station and trackbed at County School. The MNR quickly returned the station to use, as a visitor centre, rather than an operational railway museum. |
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Author | Ashley Dace |
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