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Swaffham Branch

former railway line in England
Place railway_line Q19871747

Facts

13 properties
Instance of
railway line, ELR railway line section[4]
Inception
1866[11]
Country
United Kingdom[3]
Commissioned by
Thetford and Watton Railway, Watton and Swaffham Railway[5][6]
Date of official closure
1964[16]
Date of official opening
1869[14]
Described by source
Engineer's Line References (ELRs): A (Hopefully) Comprehensive Listing, Signalling Record Society line data[12][13]
Imported from
wholeness_audit_2026-05-02
Length
18.5125 mile[15]
Located in the administrative territorial entity
England[2]
Operator
Great Eastern Railway, London and North Eastern Railway (1923–1947)[7][8]
State of use
decommissioned[17]
Terminus
Roudham Junction, Swaffham Junction[9][10]
🏷️ Also known as
en Bury and Thetford (Swaffham Branch) en Crab and Wnkle Line en RJS en Roudham Junction to Swaffham Line en Swaffham Branch en Thetford, Watton and Swaffham Line
🔖 Identifiers · 4
Image (Wikimedia Commons)
Crab and Winkle line approaching Swaffham.jpg ↗
Described at URL
www.heritage.norfolk.gov.uk
Engineer's Line Reference
RJS
Freebase ID
/m/0131xzxj

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Summary

Swaffham Branch is a railway line[1].

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [2] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [7] ↑ . Signalling Record Society line data. s-r-s.org.uk. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  7. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [9] ↑ . Engineer's Line References (ELRs): A (Hopefully) Comprehensive Listing. railwaycodes.org.uk. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  9. [10] ↑ . Engineer's Line References (ELRs): A (Hopefully) Comprehensive Listing. railwaycodes.org.uk. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  10. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  11. [12] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  12. [13] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  13. [14] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  14. [15] ↑ . Engineer's Line References (ELRs): A (Hopefully) Comprehensive Listing. railwaycodes.org.uk. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  15. [16] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  16. [17] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

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