page_title: Mid-Norfolk Railway
section_title: Charter trains
hierarchical_section_title: Mid-Norfolk Railway / Present day / Network Rail connections / Charter trains
caption_attribution_description: English: Class 37 hauled special service north of Dereham on the Mid-Norfolk Railway
context_page_description: The Mid-Norfolk Railway is a 15-mile preserved standard gauge heritage railway, one of the longest in Great Britain. Preservation efforts began in 1974, but the line re-opened to passengers only in the mid-1990s as part of the "New Generation" of heritage railways.
  Regular steam and diesel services run 11 ¹⁄₂ miles through the centre of Norfolk between the market towns of Wymondham and Dereham via Yaxham, Thuxton and Kimberley Park, and occasional sightseer services continue north of Dereham passing the nearby village of Hoe, where there is no station, to the limit of the operational line at Worthing. The line is periodically used for commercial freight operations and staff instruction for mainline railway companies.
  The MNR own and operate the majority of the former Wymondham-Fakenham branch line of the Norfolk Railway. The branch opened in 1847, was closed to passengers in stages from 1964 to 1969 as part of the Beeching cuts, and was finally fully closed to goods traffic in 1989.
  The MNR is owned and operated by the Mid-Norfolk Railway Preservation Trust, and is mostly operated and staffed by volunteers.
context_section_description: Before the preservation of the line, a number of special trains and demonstration services were operated over the line by the Wymondham & Dereham Rail Action Committee (WyDRAC) and the Railway Development Society (RDS) to help maintain pressure for the restoration of passenger services over the line. By the line's closure, twenty special trains had operated, carrying over 5,000 passengers.
  The junction with the main line at Wymondham has allowed the Mid-Norfolk Railway to continue to be used by a number of charter and excursion trains, which operate over the line as part of the wider rail network.
caption: Class 37-hauled charter approaching Hoe, 2015
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