[3] After a suspension of work, the Holt to Cromer section of line was completed by direct labour and opened on 16 June 1887.

A through Kings Cross to Cromer express started running in August 1887 and, although the construction had been expensive, the boost to revenue from the new line was considerable.

[8] Under the Railways Act 1921, the line, along with the rest of the M&GN, was jointly managed by the LMS and LNER, retaining its own directors and staff.

[15] After these plans proved impossible, attention turned to the 3 miles (4.8 km) section of line between Sheringham and Weybourne.

[18] Work on rebuilding the line started in 1965 and Sheringham station was leased by the society following closure in 1967[19] with two steam locomotives, two diesel railbuses and the LNER Quad-Art set being delivered on 4 June 1967.

Operations over the line were later authorised through a Light Railway Order; the first was issued in 1975, under control of British Rail, and independently from 1976.

[20] An amendment order was issued in 1987, relating to the extension of the NNR to a new station site at Holt - using a parcel of land originally purchased as the junction for the never-built Blakeney branch.

The North Norfolk Railway also operate a number of dining trains over the entire surviving section of the M&GN, between Holt and Cromer, during summer months.

[24] Services began in 2016, working in partnership with the North Yorkshire Moors Railway, who were already a licensed operator on Network Rail.

They have room to accommodate four standard length British Railways Mark 1 coaches and six large steam or diesel locomotives.

The train next arrives at Weybourne, where the large locomotive and carriage works can be seen on the seaward side of the running line.

This is a single coach platform, built during the restoration of the line, and sits on the gradient, so most locomotive-hauled trains only stop here when running in the down direction (towards Sheringham).

Currently awaiting restoration and installation is a 60 ft turntable from Hull (Botanic Gardens), purchased from the South Devon Railway.

[43] In April 2013, the line was awarded £99,500 from the National Lottery Heritage Fund (NLHF) to further its restoration and education programmes, specifically to show the impact railways had on the development of the London suburbs.

[44] In 2016, the line was celebrating the completion of a new Tourist Information Centre at Sheringham and a new boiler shop at Weybourne, which were made possible by a £498,000 award from the government's Coastal Community Fund.

1982, "Ring Haw" and a crane from the company in order to release funds for the line and ensure that the vehicles remained on the North Norfolk Railway.