NHER 51968 (Monument record) - Site of World War Two rail block

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 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. It was sited at a strategic point on the East Norfolk Railway Cromer line (NHER 13586), where the defensive anti-tank ditch (NHER 51893) crossed the railway, 500m to the north of another such railblock on the Norwich to Yarmouth line (NHER 51969). It was reinforced by two anti-tank cubes either side of the railway line. Railblocks of a similar design have been noted elsewhere at Great Yarmouth (e.g. NHER 27412).