Somerleyton Swing Rail Bridge
Somerleyton Swing Bridge, Staith Lane, Somerleyton NR34 0DL, United Kingdom

Somerleyton Swing Rail Bridge
is a minor waterways place
on the Norfolk Broads (River Waveney - Main Navigation) between
Waveney - New Cut Junction (1 mile and 7½ furlongs
to the northwest) and
Waveney - Oulton Dyke Junction (2 miles and 7¼ furlongs
to the southeast).
The nearest place in the direction of Waveney - New Cut Junction is Slugs Lane Marina;
¾ furlongs
away.
Mooring here is unrated.
There is a swing bridge here.
| Bell Inn | 2 miles, 2¼ furlongs | |
| St. Olaves Marina | 2 miles, ½ furlongs | |
| Waveney - New Cut Junction | 1 mile, 7½ furlongs | |
| Haddiscoe Railway Bridge (dismantled) | 1 mile, 5 furlongs | |
| Slugs Lane Marina | ¾ furlongs | |
| Somerleyton Swing Rail Bridge | ||
| Waveney - Oulton Dyke Junction | 2 miles, 7¼ furlongs | |
| Waveney River Centre | 3 miles, 5 furlongs | |
| Seven Mile Carr | 5 miles, 3¼ furlongs | |
| Beccles Bypass Bridge | 10 miles, 3½ furlongs | |
| Beccles Marinas | 10 miles, 4½ furlongs | |
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Nearest place to turn
In the direction of Yare - Waveney Junction
Yare - Hardley Dyke Junction — 7 miles, 1¾ furlongs away
Travel to Waveney - New Cut Junction, then on the Norfolk Broads (Haddiscoe Cut) to Yare - New Cut Junction, then on the Norfolk Broads (River Yare - Main Navigation) to Yare - Hardley Dyke Junction
Yare - Waveney Junction — 7 miles, 3¾ furlongs away
On this waterway in the direction of Yare - Waveney JunctionNo information
CanalPlan has no information on any of the following facilities within range:water point
rubbish disposal
chemical toilet disposal
self-operated pump-out
boatyard pump-out
Direction of TV transmitter (From Wolfbane Cybernetic)
There is no page on Wikipedia called “Somerleyton Swing Rail Bridge”
Wikipedia pages that might relate to Somerleyton Swing Rail Bridge
[Swing bridge]
Penzance Sandwich Toll Bridge (rebuilt 1892) Selby swing bridge – rail Somerleyton swing bridge Trowse Bridge at Norwich. Carries the electrified Great Eastern
[Greater Anglia (train operating company)]
Trowse Swing Bridge would need to be overcome to facilitate this. Some services have been transferred from Greater Anglia's management to other rail operators
[List of railway bridges and viaducts in the United Kingdom]
significant bridges of the United Kingdom's railways, past and present. Contents: Top 0–9 A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z List of bridges in
[Norfolk Railway]
Allen says 4 June 1844, page 13. The Carrow swing bridge is nowadays generally referred to as Trowse Swing Bridge. George Dow, The First Railway in Norfolk
[History of the East Suffolk line]
Haddiscoe Yard, Haddiscoe Junction, Reedham Swing Bridge and Reedham station." The track over the St Olaves swing bridge was altered to become a conventional
[Yarmouth–Beccles line]
only a little less circuitous than the original route via Lowestoft, Somerleyton and the Reedham East Curve, entering Yarmouth Vauxhall via Berney Arms
[King's Lynn railway station]
and at one point was a complicated network of lines, boasting two swing bridges, serving premises on and around the town's South Quay. Another short
[Lowestoft railway station]
completion of the Lowestoft and Beccles Railway which entered the town via a swing bridge over Oulton Broad, where a 1.75-mile (2.82-kilometre) freight line branched
[Brundall railway station]
Brundall station became a Norfolk Railway asset. On 15 December 1845 a swing bridge over the River Wensum opened and this allowed freight trains going to
[Thetford railway station]
in the suburbs of Norwich, as the contractors were having to build a swing bridge to cross the navigable River Wensum. Thetford station was, when opened
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Somerleyton Swing Bridge - WikipediaSomerleyton Swing Bridge is a railway swing bridge over the River Waveney on the Norfolk-Suffolk border. It was built in 1905 to carry the double tracked ...
Users must ensure that bridge heights are checked before navigating. Somerleyton Swing Bridge will open on request although there may be delays while trains ...
One of two similar swing bridges, the other being Reedham Swing Bridge ... the single track bridges that carried the railway between Norwich and Lowestoft over  ...
There are also rail bridges at Somerleyton, Reedham and Trowse that have been constructed with swing mechanisms which are staffed and opened by Network ...
A description and photograph of Somerleyton Swing Bridge signal box, Great Eastern Railway.
Oct 12, 2010 ... We're hopeful that Somerleyton swing bridge will be returned to full working ... the line between Reedham and Lowestoft will be closed to trains ...
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Somerleyton Swing Bridge is a railway swing bridge over the River Waveney on the Norfolk-Suffolk border. The historical bridge carries the twin-tracked Norwich  ...
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![Somerleyton swingbridge and viaduct. Crossing the River Waverley [and the country boundary between Norfolk and Suffolk]. Seen from the top deck of the Waveney Princess, as it turns just south of the mooring pontoon. by Christine Johnstone – 12 August 2015](https://s0.geograph.org.uk/geophotos/04/63/35/4633504_f795c75b_120x120.jpg)










![Railway, Somerleyton Station to Somerleyton Bridge. A farm road crossing dominates the view at the western end of the station - a crossing that also has to be used by passengers to the Lowestoft bound platform. On the horizon, but only a few hundred yards up the track, the control box and girders of the Somerleyton Swing Bridge over the River Waveney can be seen. For more details of the station see [[1016132]].You may spot an odd slope in the crossing, as the rails this side are significantly taller than those on the other side. by John Goldsmith – 22 October 2008](https://s2.geograph.org.uk/geophotos/01/01/61/1016146_12981bd7_120x120.jpg)












![Somerleyton railway station - approaching the swing bridge. The swing bridge > http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1506009 was closed to train traffic when this photo was taken. The signal box can be seen beside it.Somerleyton station > http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1505978 is on the Norwich to Lowestoft line and situated on the edge of the Somerleyton Marshes. The station building, which appears to never have had a canopy, has been converted into a private dwelling house > http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1505968. The building has its own water tank. A narrow lane, Station Road > http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1505938 descends towards the level crossing at the western end of the platforms which is also the only way for pedestrians to cross from one platform to the other. A track leading into the Somerleyton marshes continues on the other side of the line. The station was opened by the Norfolk Railway in June 1847 and later operated by the GER (Great Eastern Railway) and by the London and North Eastern Railway. It is presently managed by National Express East Anglia. It was Samuel Morton Peto* - he took over the Somerleyton Estate in 1844 and had developed a great interest in the railway system - who brought the railway to Somerleyton. [*Samuel Peto's greatest work was the building of the Eastern Counties railway, in sections, from London to Yarmouth, Wymondham to Dereham, Ely to Peterborough, Chatteris to St Ives, Norwich to Brandon, London to Cambridge and Cambridge to Ely.] by Evelyn Simak – 24 September 2009](https://s0.geograph.org.uk/geophotos/01/50/59/1505956_c6beaf24_120x120.jpg)




