A surviving building

OUTWELL

Outwell in tramway days

The goods depot in recent times

FACEBOOK - RAIL THING - WISBECH AND UPWELL TRAMWAY

The goods depot at Outwell is now preserved and work has been done by local people to restore it. This was on one of the most picturesque parts of the line and is a wonderful asset to the village!

GOODS OFFICE OF FORMER WISBECH AND UPWELL TRAMWAY

List Entry Summary

This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.

Name: GOODS OFFICE OF FORMER WISBECH AND UPWELL TRAMWAY

List entry Number: 1077680

Location

GOODS OFFICE OF FORMER WISBECH AND UPWELL TRAMWAY

The building may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

County: Norfolk

District: King's Lynn and West Norfolk

District Type: District Authority

Parish: Outwell

National Park: Not applicable to this List entry.

Grade: II

Date first listed: 02-Oct-1990

Date of most recent amendment: Not applicable to this List entry.

Legacy System Information

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Legacy System: LBS

UID: 221867

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List entry Description

Summary of Building

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Reasons for Designation

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History

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Details

Goods Office of TF 50 SW former Wisbech and 9/81 Upwell Tramway II Tramway goods office. Circa 1883. Red brick in Flemish bond slate hipped roof with deep eaves. Small rectangular plan, probably single cell, building with entrance in the south end from the road. Single storey. No windows on north end but central doorway with segmental arch and C19 4-panel door. Two segmental arch window openings on west side with stone cill and 16-pane metal frame windows. The north end and east side are blind. Interior not inspected. Note The Wisbech and Upwell Tramway, authorised in 1882 and built by the Great Eastern Railway was the last section to survive of a larger system. It provided a rail link between Wisbech and the Outwell-Upwell area. This section of 7 3/4 miles runs along the Wisbech to Outwell Canal. The Tramway has been described as a "cross between the railway proper and ordinary Tram" with wagons and small screened-in locomotives, running across and alongside roads and canals. The coaches were provided with gangways and end steps because the stations did not have platforms; but the main purpose of the line was agricultural. The line was closed to passengers in 1929 and closed altogether in 1966. Reverend W Awdry, the author of 'Toby the Tram Engine' was for a time the vicar of Emneth, a parish through which the tramway ran. This goods office at the Outwell Village Depot is the last survivor of a series of offices on the tramway. Sources: C Hawkins and G Reeve, The Wisbech and Upwell Tramway (Wild Swan Publications). D I Gordon, A Regional History of The Railways of Great Britain, The Eastern Counties, Vol V, page 224.

Listing NGR: TF5132003668

Selected Sources

Books and journals
Hawkins, C , Reeve, G , The Wisbech and Upwell Tramway
Gordon, D I, 'A Regional History of the Railways of Great Britain' in Eastern Counties, , Vol. 5, (), 224

National Grid Reference: TF 51320 03668