Make Tracks to The Sixties

Sat 20 & Sun 21 Jul 2024

Travel back to the Sixties from Sheringham or Holt!

  • Steam and diesel locomotives in action and our great value rover tickets, valid for unlimited travel allowing you to hop on and off all day!
  • Join a 1960s train at Sheringham or Holt and travel to Weybourne for the sights and sounds of this transformative era
  • Live sixties music at Weybourne
  • Vehicles from the decade and other displays at Weybourne Station
  • Classic fairground games and refreshments
  • Journey through unspoilt countryside and enjoy stunning coastal views and delightful forests
  • Save money with discounted fares when you book in advance

Make Track to The Sixties

Join us as we recall the atmosphere of the transformative decade with steam and diesel trains working alongside one another, live music from the era at Weybourne plus displays of some of the distinctive road vehicles of the time.

A frequent train service will operate between Sheringham and Holt with rover tickets allowing passengers to hop on and off all day to travel behind different locomotives and to see the activities at Weybourne Station.

Here, a small selection of classic cars that were typical of the era will be on display along with some 1960s caravans with their distinctive styling that made them luxury items at the time. There will also be an opportunity for visitors to have a go at traditional sideshows that were a feature of fetes in the 1960s!

Two steam locomotives, two diesel engines and a heritage railcar – all of which worked in the 1960s will be in action on the rails and the timetable will also feature a demonstration goods train of the era. The “new” diesel technology suffered a few teething problems at the time which often resulted in the modern diesels having to be pulled by the “old fashioned” steam engines – another aspect of the era that will be recreated over the weekend.

Music

Time Band
10.40 – 11.20 The Austin Beats
11.40 – 12.20 Sixties Roadshow
12.40 – 13.20 The Austin Beats
13.40 – 14.20 Sixties Roadshow
14.40 – 15.20 The Austin Beats
15.40 – 16.20 Sixties Roadshow

Timetable

Fares

Event tickets allow for Hop on – Hop off unlimited travel all day.

Groups welcome at this event. Please contact our Bookings Office on 01263 820800.

Single tickets, returns to intermediate stations and platform tickets are not available at this special event. Admission and travel requires the purchase of an all day rover ticket.

Discounted fares are available when you book online in advance

Subject to availability tickets can also be purchased from the ticket offices at Holt, Sheringham or Weybourne on the day of travel

Ticket Type Price
Adult Day Rover  £ 22.00
Child Day Rover (3–15 yrs)  £ 15.00
Family of 4 (Max 2 Adults)  £ 64.50
Family of 5 (Max 2 Adults)  £ 74.50
Dog  £ 3.00
Bicycle  £ 3.00

Subject to availability, tickets must be purchased on the day before travel at the latest.

Ticket Type Price
Adult Day Rover  £ 20.00
Child Day Rover (3–15 yrs)  £ 14.00
Family of 4 (Max 2 Adults)  £ 57.50
Family of 5 (Max 2 Adults)  £ 67.50
Dog  £ 3.00
Bicycle  £ 3.00

Explore

All the usual visitor amenities will be open at each station and there’s also plenty to see in the surrounding area . . .

HOLT

Holt is the western terminus of the railway and is around a mile from the town centre. The station is easy to reach by road,  just off the A148 at High Kelling, and has ample parking (for which we request a small donation) so is an ideal staring point for passengers wishing to travel to Sheringham and visit the town and seaside.

The What Three Words code for Holt Station’s main entrance is saturate.atlas.dumplings

The town’s original station closed in 1964 and was demolished and part of the trackbed used for the A148 Holt Bypass – discover more about the original station here. The current station is a faithful recreation of an Midland & Great Northern Joint Railway country station, using buildings recovered from various locations in East Anglia. The station decor and artefacts are presented to give a flavour of the period shortly after  1936 when the London & North Eastern Railway took over full ownership of the M&GN.

The station boasts a small buffet and gift shop and a painstakingly created model railway. The William Marriott Museum, which tells the story of the M&GN, and the Railway Cottage – a small home made shortly after World War I by reusing a redundant railway carriage – are open on most days that trains run Easter to October (subject to volunteer availabilty).

The town of Holt is well worth a visit. Energetic passengers can stroll into the town centre – the walk will take around 25 minutes – while many will prefer to hop on a one of the buses that stop on the road opposite the station entrance for a short five minute trip into town.  The town features many Georgian buildings and a wide Market Place.

Weybourne’s atmospheric station is a a real gem. There is very limited parking, so the best way to arrive is by train! If you are arriving by car the What Three Words code for the main entrance is huddling.rots.bound

Hop off and soak up the period atmosphere or take a walk to Weybourne village a mile or so away or to the nearby Sheringham Park. For those not wanting to venture too far, the footbridge affords panoramic views back towards Sheringham and down to the sea and is a good spot to watch trains approaching.

Originally built to capitalise on the “Poppyland” holiday boom, the station served a nearby hotel that was demolished in World War II . It oozes Edwardian charm and has been restored to close to it’s original condition sporting the tan and cream colour scheme used by the Midland & Great Northern Joint Railway at the time. Discover more of about the history of Weybourne station and village.

The former parcels office has been converted into a small period style souvenir shop and buffet. Historic goods vehicles in the bay platform add to the atmosphere and one, a Southern Railway parcels van, houses a model railway.

Most trains will pass another here, so you make the most of your rover ticket by changing from one to another.

Kelling Heath

Kelling Heath Park is a small halt stop on the North Norfolk Railway, used mostly by hikers. It was not on the original British Rail line, but was opened after the line was preserved.

The station was opened in 1983 as part of the Railway’s extension to Kelling; a very short half coach-length halt was constructed principally to serve the nearby caravan park. Upon the completion of the extension to Holt in 1989, ‘Kelling Camp Halt’ was demolished and a new longer platform was constructed, ¼ of a mile further up the hill to the west; the station was also renamed “Kelling Heath Park”.

The Halt stop backs onto Kelling Park itself and also provides access to Kelling Heath Holiday Park, a popular campsite set amongst 300 acres of woodland and rare open heathland. The campsite has a wide variety of accommodation including luxury wooden lodges, holiday homes and camping & touring pitches, all available to book online or over the phone via 01263 588181.

Sheringham’s imposing station houses the booking office, waiting room and buffet. The Old Luggage Office buffet is in an area which was used to store the many suitcases and trunks that the Victorian tourists travelling to Sheringham required. Today, it offers the chance to relax over a drink or light lunch and watch the trains come and go.

The station has been restored to close to its 1955 appearance, when British Railways were responsible for the line. The distinctive blue station totems and matching enamel signs are evocative of that period. The footbridge provides an excellent vantage point from which to watch trains arrive, or the engine “run round” to the other end of its train ready for the next trip to Holt.

Passengers starting their journey here can arrive by Great Anglia trains from Cromer and Norwich (the mainline station is just across Station Road), by bus (they stop right outside) or by car (there is a large pay and display car park adjacent to the station). The What Three Words code for the car park entrance is stables.case.blip

For those arriving on one of our historic trains, there’s a chance to visit the town’s many independent shops, stroll to beach and promenade or take a slightly longer walk to join the Norfolk Coastal Path and enjoy a cliff top walk or climb Beeston Bump (a distinctively-shaped local hillock). The town museum includes a Windfarm Visitor Centre where you can discover more about the arrays that have been built offshore.

Find out more about Sheringham station and town.