Norwich City Station Preservation Group/FONCS

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Norwich City Station Preservation Group/FONCS Preserving our past for the future, promotion and preservation of City Station and Marriotts way

A group of enthusiastic people with a keen interest in preserving the remains of the M&GN Norwich City Station and Hellesdon Station. Our aim is to raise awareness of these sites, to look after and maintain the remains of this once very important line in Norfolk.

The Ghosts of Norwich City
13/09/2026

The Ghosts of Norwich City

We've been busy at City this evening in anticipation of our Heritage Open Day Walk.
09/09/2026

We've been busy at City this evening in anticipation of our Heritage Open Day Walk.

03/02/2026
The Wensum Dipper
19/01/2025

The Wensum Dipper

I have told the tale of the Wensum Dipper in the past, but that piece was written a while back now, and since then some new details and images have come to light in a massive collection of images a…

Lady Jane and City Station.
15/06/2024

Lady Jane and City Station.

It was and a cold and miserable November day in Norwich during the later stages of World War Two (November the 24th, 1944). Clouds were hanging heavy and grey over Horsham St Faith’s Airfield…

Another "ghost" image of a part of the M&GN way up the line from City.
10/04/2024

Another "ghost" image of a part of the M&GN way up the line from City.

I'm standing in two different decades, with almost seventy years between them as I watch a Locomotive (that no longer exists) numbered 43155, an Ivatt Class 4MT haul it's train of mixed freight up the gradient towards one of the highest points in Norfolk (steady!) and towards Melton Constable, once....

We return to Norwich City Station to re record the station footage with further details not recorded in the 2nd part of ...
18/11/2023

We return to Norwich City Station to re record the station footage with further details not recorded in the 2nd part of the walk from Mile Cross, details of FONCS and how we came to restore the station area

A bonus video on Norwich City Station showing further details, including the stations History, the bombing of the area in April 1942, and the role The Frein...

Part 2 of my walk to Norwich City station from Mile Cross, tails from WW2, B24 Liberator Crash in 1944, the Wensum Dippe...
15/11/2023

Part 2 of my walk to Norwich City station from Mile Cross, tails from WW2, B24 Liberator Crash in 1944, the Wensum Dipper, and tails from William 'Puffing Billy' Beeston..please note there is unintentional swearing withing this video due to Bramble entanglement and the surprise of 'tent City' at the former station site...my full Apologies for this...

we carry on our gentle walk to Norwich City station from Mile Cross towards the former Terminus...join me for stories from World War 2, The Wensum 'Dipper' B...

John, taking a wander from Hellesdon to City. Part 1.
15/11/2023

John, taking a wander from Hellesdon to City. Part 1.

join me John Batley from the Norfolk Railway Heritage Group on a gentle walk from Costessey to Norwich City station, this is Part 1...where I walk from Cost...

Join John Batley from FONCs/NRHG on a gentle disused Railway walk from Costessey to Norwich City station on the former M...
14/11/2023

Join John Batley from FONCs/NRHG on a gentle disused Railway walk from Costessey to Norwich City station on the former M&GN trackbed , in Part 1 we visit the former Hellesdon Station and make our way towards Norwich City station finishing at Mile Cross Road Bridge taking in 4 bridges and finding other 'gems' along the way...

join me John Batley from the Norfolk Railway Heritage Group on a gentle walk from Costessey to Norwich City station, this is Part 1...where I walk from Cost...

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