Swainsthorpe

Swainsthorpe

Swainsthorpe is a village in Norfolk, England. It lies about 5 miles south of Norwich.

Its church, St Peter, is one of 124 existing round-tower churches in Norfolk. [cite web|url=http://www.roundtowerchurches.de/Karte/C5/Swainsthorpe_St_Peter/swainsthorpe_st_peter.html|title=Swainsthorpe, St. Peter|work=RoundTowerChurches|accessdate=2007-04-21]

Railway Station

It once possessed a Swainsthorpe railway station on the Great Eastern Railway which was the first station south of the Norwich terminus at Norwich Victoria railway station. It closed in 1952.

Level crossing accident

At 6:22am on Thursday 1st March 2007, a One Railway service travelling from Colchester in Essex to Norwich, collided with a Vauxhall Astra at the level crossing at Swainsthorpe. One person in the car died. The train, however, remained upright, did not derail and there were no injuries on board. [cite web|url=http://www.eadt.co.uk/content/eadt/news/story.aspx?brand=EADOnline&category=news&tBrand=EADOnline&tCategory=News&itemid=IPED01%20Mar%202007%2008%3A30%3A38%3A967|title=Motorist dies in train crash|work=EADT24 Suffolk and Essex Online|year=2007|author=Archant Regional Ltd|accessdate=2007-04-21]

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