NHER 27412 (Monument record) - Site of World War Two rail block

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Summary

A World War Two rail block is visible as a group of what are probably concrete sockets, set between the lines and sleepers of a railway (now destroyed) on 1940s aerial photographs. In the event of an invasion vertical and bent rails would have been placed into the sockets in order to impede enemy vehicles such as tanks. Roadblocks of a similar design have been noted elsewhere at Great Yarmouth (e.g. NHER 34557).

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None recorded

Location

Map sheet	TG50NW
Civil Parish	GREAT YARMOUTH, GREAT YARMOUTH, NORFOLK

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July 2005. Norfolk NMP.
A World War Two railblock is visible as a group of concrete sockets on aerial photographs (S1) and (S2), centred at TG 5205 0862. It lay on the Midland and Great Northern Joint Railway (east to west line) (NHER 13581), on a section which has since been destroyed. The lines of sockets would have held anti tank obstacles in the form of bent and vertical rails or 'pins', (S3).
S. Tremlett (NMP), 18 July 2005.

Associated Sources (3)

<S1> SNF56346 Vertical Aerial Photograph: RAF. 1944. RAF HLA/698 4054-5 08-APR-1944 (NMR).
<S2> SNF56348 Vertical Aerial Photograph: RAF. 1945. RAF 106G/UK/726 5132-3 26-AUG-1945 (NMR).
<S3> SNF56531 Serial: Dobinson, C.S.. 1996. Twentieth Century Fortifications in England. Volume II. Anti-Invasion Defences of WWII.. Vol 2. pp 153-4.

Site and Feature Types and Periods (4)

Object Types (0)

Related NHER Records (1)

Geographical: NHER 13581 - Part of: Route of Midland and Great Northern Joint Railway (Great Yarmouth to Sutton Bridge) (Monument)

Record last edited

May 31 2006 1:28PM