California Halt railway station

California Halt
Location
Place	California
Area	Great Yarmouth
Grid reference	TG514147
Operations
Post-grouping	Midland and Great Northern Joint Railway Eastern Region of British Railways
Platforms	1
History
17 July 1933	Opened
September 1939	Closed
June 1948	Reopened
27 September 1958	Last day of services
2 March 1959	Official closure
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California Halt was a railway station on the Midland and Great Northern Joint Railway which served the Norfolk village of California, England.

History

Opened by the Midland and Great Northern Joint Railway, the station was closed as a wartime measure before passing briefly to the Eastern Region of British Railways on nationalisation in 1948 only to be closed by the British Railways in 1959.

References

• Butt, R. V. J. (1995). The Directory of Railway Stations: details every public and private passenger station, halt, platform and stopping place, past and present (1st ed.). Sparkford: Patrick Stephens Ltd. ISBN 1-8526-0508-1. OCLC 60251199. 
• Jowett, Alan (2000). Jowett's Nationalised Railway Atlas (1st ed.). Penryn, Cornwall: Atlantic Transport Publishers. ISBN 0-9068-9999-0. OCLC 228266687. 
• Jowett, Alan (March 1989). Jowett's Railway Atlas of Great Britain and Ireland: From Pre-Grouping to the Present Day (1st ed.). Sparkford: Patrick Stephens Ltd. ISBN 1-8526-0086-1. OCLC 22311137. 

Coordinates: 52°40′18″N 1°43′01″E / 52.67164°N 1.71707°E / 52.67164; 1.71707