Owen
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Does freight ever venture down the GEML......if so, when?
Of all the times I've waited at the lineside just to watch the trains go by on the GE Mainline, I've never seen a freight based train of sorts. I know that there is an EWS facility of sorts at Norwich, and a Gas/Petrol(?) depot up at N.Walsham. Do these trains never go down the GEML, and always head down along the Thetford-way line?
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nebulaman
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North Walsham Tanks (6A33) goes to Parkeston Quay at Harwich. I don't really know about the soap stone and redland trains but I guess they go via Thetford. There is a place at Needham Market which is a freight depot.
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easternbuzz
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Felixstowe docks have a fair amount of intermodal traffic through ipswich and down through to Stratford
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Owen
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Thanks for the input. The reason I ask is that of all the hours I have spent on the lineside between Norwich and Diss, I have never seen any freight and only a couple of loco movements and the steam charters have been the most interesting thing to go down apart from the usual services to London Liv.St.
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