colour as the GNR used, until 1917 when general stock under the common user agreement began to be painted grey. The number of M&GN wagons declined during the 1920s, and were eventually bought by the parent companies in 1928, leaving only service stock, which was painted red oxide. Under British Railways' control, carriages were often carmine and cream, then maroon. Cultural impact and heritage The M&GN was frequently referred to as the "Muddle and Go Nowhere", a fairly self-evident title for a route that served a mostly rural region, but after closure this phrase was commonly replaced with "Missed and Greatly Needed". The M&GN's memory is kept alive by two heritage railway operations and railway museums. Whilst only the short section between Cromer Beach and Sheringham remains open to regular services, the section of branch line between Sheringham and Holt is operated as the North Norfolk Railway. The station at Whitwell also operates as a heritage centre, with ambitions to restore a section of the M&GN main line. There is also a group dedicated to the study of the line: the M&GN Circle. M&GN signal boxes survive at numerous locations, with Cromer Beach box being open to the public. The box from Honing also survives at the Barton House Railway near Wroxham. The turntable from Bourne engine shed has also survived. This turntable was built in Ipswich in 1933 and installed at Bourne. When the shed closed along with the line in 1959 it was transferred to Peterborough East railway station. After that shed closed the turntable was rebuilt at Wansford station on the Nene Valley railway Very little rolling stock from the line has been preserved. The North Norfolk Railway have rescued two passenger coaches and a brake van, while a third passenger coach has recently been preserved by the Whitwell & Reepham Railway. Another M&GN brake van survives, No. 23 which was built in 1899, was rescued from Melton Constable in 2000. Two more M&GN coaches survive, No. 40 and 41 (originally GNR), No. 40 is preserved in Alysham and No. 41 survives at the former Raynham Station platform and building. No locomotives survived, with the last complete locomotive being scrapped at the Longmoor Military Railway in 1953. The "golden ochre" livery has been carried by two industrial locomotives on the North Norfolk Railway, and was later worn by a bus operated by Norfolk Green on routes formerly