The Barton House Railway is a miniature railway in Wroxham

Wroxham

Wroxham is a village and civil parish in the English county of Norfolk. The civil parish of Wroxham has an area of 6.21 square kilometres and in 2001 had a population of 1532 in 666 households. The village is situated within the Norfolk Broads on the south side of a loop in the middle reaches of...

, Norfolk

Norfolk

Norfolk is a low-lying county in the East of England. It has borders with Lincolnshire to the west, Cambridgeshire to the west and southwest and Suffolk to the south. Its northern and eastern boundaries are the North Sea coast and to the north-west the county is bordered by The Wash. The county...

 open on the third Sunday of the month form April until October.

History

The initial 3 ½" gauge track was laid in 1960. The railway was then opened to the public in 1963, and began to raise money for local charities.

In 1967 the Midland & Great Northern Joint Railway Honing East Signalbox was rebuilt at Barton House Railway having been carefully dismantled from its original home at Honing railway station

Honing railway station

Honing railway station was a station in Norfolk serving the small village of Honing. It was on the Midland and Great Northern Joint Railway between Melton Constable and Great Yarmouth. It closed along with the rest of the line in 1959....

where it had stood since 1901.

A new 7 ¼" gauge Riverside Railway was added in 1979.