Under the suface

Big plans for today, out for a meal, then a walk into the city to look at one or two treats for each of us. However, girl threw a major tantrum, so we never got out of the village.

Late afternoon I needed to nip to a shop on the outskirts to pick something up. I stopped here at the start of Marriot's Way in Norwich. This is a path and cycle track that heads west across Norfolk, tracing an old railway line.

The roundabout behind where I am stood is on the site of the old City station, built in 1882. It served the Midland and Great Northern railway, was, from what I have seen very grand, and was heavily damaged by bombs in 1942. It reopened, but closed to passengers in 1959, and to freight in 1969. Nothing remained. Until recently, when some local people decided to unearth the remains - a section of platform wall and a few sleepers still in place - I took this shot from where the line would've run. This was quite a large railway station, and the industrial site in the background is built across some of the site. The river Wensum is just to the right of this shot, overlooked by industrial buildings, and piles of cars in a scrap yard.

Fifteen years ago I lived a stones throw from here, but didn't realise the path was based on a railway line and station. There is a Flickr group to which the diggers are contributing.