NEW FEBRUARY 2022. This is a compilation of articles and illustrations which relate to the former workshops (initially for locomotives, later for rolling stock) and running shed at Norwich Thorpe.

The articles include a 1937 one from the Railway Gazette entitled 'Norwich Locomotive Depot' written by a running shed foreman there. This is supplemented by a short extract from the Locomotive Magazine of 1901, part of the series on 'Locomotives of the GER'. The third extract, a piece of news from the 1922 Locomotive Magazine, describes the stationary steam engine which drove all the workshop equipment until the advent of electric power, which had just replaced it - this was by then quite a museum piece, dating back to the 1840's.

The illustrations include a 1926 large-scale map of Norwich Thorpe (taken from File MP034) with all the relevant locations marked. There is a picture of their new coaling tower installed by the LNER in 1934, together with a drawing showing what is inside it. There is also a photograph of the old engine that had powered the workshops. Finally come four photographs from our Sales listing which depict the shops and the running shed.

The file will be available to download as soon as payment has been made. You go to your account and click on ‘Downloads’. New customers create an account as they place their order.