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Dereham Road, FAKENHAM, NR21 7LD

The village sign at Hempton, Norfolk

The double sided sign features ancient Hamatuna on one side with the priory of St Stephen, also known as Fakenham or Damsend Priory. A shepherd tends to a lamb while sheep and cows pass by a monk reading from a book. On the other side is a more recent scene of a bright green M.G.N. train curling out loads of smoke as it rushes past a gap in the fence. Wheat, poppies and other wild flowers complete the picture. The Midland and Great Northern Railway line used to run from Bourne in Lincolnshire to Great Yarmouth. https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/6793713 https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/6793710

The double sided sign features ancient Hamatuna on one side with the priory of St Stephen, also known as Fakenham or Damsend Priory. A shepherd tends to a lamb while sheep and cows pass by a monk reading from a book. On the other side is a more recent scene of a bright green M.G.N. train curling out loads of smoke as it rushes past a gap in the fence. Wheat, poppies and other wild flowers complete the picture. The Midland and Great Northern Railway line used to run from Bourne in Lincolnshire to Great Yarmouth. https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/6793713 https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/6793708

The double sided sign features ancient Hamatuna on one side with the priory of St Stephen, also known as Fakenham or Damsend Priory. A shepherd tends to a lamb while sheep and cows pass by a monk reading from a book. On the other side is a more recent scene of a bright green M.G.N. train curling out loads of smoke as it rushes past a gap in the fence. Wheat, poppies and other wild flowers complete the picture. The Midland and Great Northern Railway line used to run from Bourne in Lincolnshire to Great Yarmouth. https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/6793708 https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/6793710

Hempton is a village just to south west of Fakenham. This side of the sign uses the much less common name 'Hamatuna'.

The pump bears the name J. TYLOR & Sons on the triangular cap

The remains of the footbridge foundation on the remaining platform. It was opened by the Lynn and Fakenham Railway Company in 1880 on their Kings Lynn to Fakenham route (later to become a line to Melton Constable and Great Yarmouth). The company was incorporated into the Eastern & Midlands Railway Company by an Act of Parliament of 18 August 1882, and comprised the Lynn & Fakenham, Yarmouth & North Norfolk (Light), and Yarmouth Union. These were all dissolved on 31 December 1882. The company also controlled the Cromer Railway. From 1 July 1893 the properties of the company were acquired by the Midland and Great Northern companies under the provisions of the Midland and Great Northern railway companies (Eastern and Midland Railway) Act 1893, managed by a Joint Committee of the two companies having equal rights. From 1 January 1923 the Midland Railway became vested in the London Midland & Scottish Railway Company, and the Great Northern Railway in the London & North Eastern Railway Company. The LMS and LNER jointly managed the line from 1923, with all operations being taken over by the LNER in 1936. Decline began from here, and when BR got the line in 1948 things were looking good with new 'Mucky Ducks' (Ivatt 4MTs) arriving for M&GN services. However most of the M&GN system including this line closed February 1959.

Opened in 1880 as "Fakenham Town" on what became the Midland & Great Northern Joint Railway from Leicester to Great Yarmouth, the name was changed to just Fakenham in 1898 and then Fakenham West in 1948. The station closed in 1959. View north west towards Raynham Park and ultimately, Leicester. The station had 2 parallel platforms. The end of one of them still survived when this image was taken.