Action Stations! ; Offering Bags of Charm and Great Transport Links, Old Railway Buildings Make Ideal Homes. Just Stay On the Right Side of the Tracks, Says Graham Norwood

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FANCY strutting your stuff in a station master's uniform? Want to patrol a platform? Well, that's what Deborah and Alan Mann do, because they live in the latest in fashionable retro homes - a converted railway station.

The couple and their two sons bought the old station at Acle, Norfolk, because they were fascinated by historic buildings, but admit they knew little about railways.

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Action Stations! ; Offering Bags of Charm and Great Transport Links, Old Railway Buildings Make Ideal Homes. Just Stay On the Right Side of the Tracks, Says Graham Norwood

Now, four years later, the main station building has become their home, and they have transformed the booking office into a rental flat which they let out to railway enthusiasts.

'The railway branch line still runs through the station, with a service roughly every 30 minutes. The main station house was in poor condition when we got it, but still has some of ...

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