North Norfolk has its busiestever day

THE North Norfolk Railway has recorded its busiest ‘normal' working day in its history, excluding special events.

On August 17, the Poppy Line carried 1600 passengers, now being able to operate at full capacity following July's lifting of social distancing restrictions.

General manager Andrew Munden said: “From what I can make out, that's the busiest single day the railway has ever had apart from during the 1940s weekends.

“We had to close our ticket offices at 11am because we ran out of spaces to sell on the trains.”

He said that the railway has recorded the fifth busiest August on record with 31,590 passengers, the best for the month being 32,000 in 2015.