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Poppy Line launches appeal to restore Sheringham’s platform 2

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THE North Norfolk Railway (NNR) has mounted a £185,000 appeal to return platform 2 at Sheringham station to the condition it was in when the line was closed by BR in 1967. 

The project will see the long-demolished waiting room building re-instated, together with the wall, which was primarily there to support the canopy, but also forms the front of the station building. 

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First-generation DMUs meet at Sheringham in 1959, showing the original platform 2 buildings and canopy as they were (left). C I K Field/NNR

The canopy is not included in the appeal, and the NNR says in due course, another appeal is likely to be held to re-instate the canopy.

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