A new steam-outline diesel locomotive was supplied by Keef as the new carriages were too heavy for Weasel to pull.

[4] In September 2021 the railway closed, without fanfare, despite protest, with Holkham Estate issuing a briefing repeating closure,[5] saying that all the railway equipment had been sold on to a different location in the UK and that there will be a "replacement service" for transport between the town and the harbour by 2022 season.

The track and rolling stock were removed over a 6–day period in early November 2021 with the support of staff from the purchasers, Lappa Valley Steam Railway,[6] where the rail will be reused to renew the life expired aluminium rail presently installed on the 10.25" railway and the locomotives and carriages supporting the existing fleet.

In December 2021, one of the former locomotives Densil was purchased by the Watford Miniature Railway despite it leaving on the same lorry bound for Cornwall with the track and other rolling stock.

[7] The Wells Harbour Railway operated at weekends from Easter to the May Day bank holiday, then daily until the end of September, using a published timetable.

[8] The original carriages used on the line were made by David King, who was the engineer who built Edmund Hannay.