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Owen · Joined: 14 Apr 2007 Posts: 229 Location: Diss, Norfolk

...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 · Site Admin Joined: 29 Jan 2007 Posts: 188

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.

easternbuzz · Posted: Wed Feb 27, 2008 8:37 pm Post subject:

Felixstowe docks have a fair amount of intermodal traffic through ipswich and down through to Stratford

Owen · Joined: 14 Apr 2007 Posts: 229 Location: Diss, Norfolk

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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