An album of high-quality black & white photographs of steam trains operating on former Great Eastern Railway lines throughout Norfolk and Suffolk. Author Alan C Butcher has chosen a selection of images from the collection of photographer Dr Ian C Allen and provided extensive captions to accompany each image.
Photographs are arranged into chapters, each covering a former GER line in East Anglia. Lines covered in this book include:
- Cromer High to Norwich
- Hunstanton to King's Lynn
- Dereham to King's Lynn
- King's Lynn to Ely and Newmarket
- Swaffham to Roundham Jct
- Yarmouth and Lowestoft to Beccles
- Waveney Valley Line
- Norwich Victoria to Ipswich
- Beccles to Ipswich
- Norwich Thorpe to Ely
- Ipswich to Colchester
Photographs largely cover the period between the end of World War 2 and the end of steam operation in the area. Some earlier photographs from the inter-war period are also included. Steam on the Great Eastern: Norfolk and Suffolk provides a pictorial review of railways in Norfolk and Suffolk during the heyday and decline of steam motive power. 112 pages.