When the original Holt Station was opened on 1st October, 1884, it was a timber- built structure which had been the original Yarmouth Beach station, provided with a platform of sleepers. The 5 mile extension from Melton Constable had taken four difficult and expensive years: even then the line included gradients of 1 in 80 and 1 in 90. The platforms were along the line of the present day bypass, level with where Thaxter’s Timber Yard is today. The road from Hempstead passed over the line at the eastern end of the platforms, the line being protected by level crossing gates.
Two years later this first station was replaced by an Eastern & Midlands Railway pavilion type structure in brick- this looked like an early version of the Weybourne building. This station was in its turn destroyed by fire in 1926, and replaced in concrete- by then a successful William Marriott / M&GN speciality.
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