Norwich railway station

Norwich
Norwich
	Norwich railway station
Location
Place	Norwich
Local authority	Norwich, Norfolk
Operations
Station code	NRW
Managed by	Greater Anglia
Number of platforms	6
	Live arrivals/departures and station information; from National Rail Enquiries
Annual rail passenger usage
2004/05 *	2.122 million
2005/06 *	2.328 million
2006/07 *	2.712 million
2007/08 *	3.450 million
2008/09 *	3.569 million
2009/10 *	3.496 million
History
1 May 1844	Opened
12 December 1849	Renamed (Norwich Thorpe)
3 May 1886	Resited on adjacent site
5 May 1969	Renamed (Norwich)
	National Rail - UK railway stations
A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z
	* Annual estimated passenger usage based on sales of tickets in stated financial year(s) which end or originate at Norwich from Office of Rail Regulation statistics. Please note: methodology may vary year on year.
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Norwich is a railway station serving the city of Norwich in the English county of Norfolk. The station is the northern terminus of the Great Eastern Main Line from London Liverpool Street. It is also the terminus of railway lines from Ely, Sheringham, Great Yarmouth and Lowestoft.

[edit] History

At one time there were three railway stations in Norwich. Norwich Thorpe which is the current station now simply named Norwich, Norwich Victoria which was once the terminus for certain passenger services from the London direction until 1916 as well as a goods station until demolition in the 1970s, and Norwich City which was the terminus for the Midland and Great Northern Joint Railway line from Melton Constable which closed in 1959.

East Anglia's worst rail crash occurred at Thorpe St Andrew between Norwich and Brundall in 1874, killing 25 people and injuring 75.

When the station closed briefly for electrification works in 1986, Trowse railway station, a disused suburban station, was put back into service as the terminus of the line. It closed again when Norwich re-opened.

Former train operating company Anglia Railways ran services known as London Crosslink from here to Basingstoke via Stratford. This service started in 2000 and ended in 2002.

Ticket barriers were installed in January 2009.

[edit] Train Services

The following services currently call at Norwich:

Operator	Route	Material	Frequency	Notes
East Midlands Trains	Liverpool Lime Street - Liverpool South Parkway - Widnes - Warrington Central - Manchester Oxford Road - Manchester Piccadilly - Stockport - Sheffield - (Dronfield) - Chesterfield - Alfreton - (Langley Mill) - Nottingham - Grantham - Peterborough - Ely - (Brandon) - Thetford - (Attleborough - Wymondham) - Norwich	Class 158	1x per hour
Greater Anglia	London Liverpool Street - Colchester - Manningtree - Ipswich - Diss - Norwich	Class 90 + Mark 3 Coaching Stock	1x per hour	Not Sundays
Greater Anglia	London Liverpool Street - Stratford - Chelmsford - Colchester - Manningtree - Ipswich - Stowmarket - Diss - Norwich	Class 90 + Mark 3 Coaching Stock	1x per hour
Greater Anglia	Cambridge - Ely - (Shippea Hill - Lakenheath) - Brandon - Thetford - (Harling Road - Eccles Road) - Attleborough - (Spooner Row) - Wymondham - Norwich	Class 170	1x per hour
Greater Anglia	Norwich - Salhouse - Hoveton and Wroxham - Worstead - North Walsham - Gunton - Roughton Road - Cromer - West Runton - Sheringham	Class 153, Class 156, Class 170	1x per hour
Greater Anglia	Norwich - Brundall Gardens - Brundall - Lingwood - Acle - Great Yarmouth	Class 153, Class 156, Class 170	1x per hour
Greater Anglia	Norwich - Brundall Gardens - Brundall - Cantley - Reedham - Berney Arms - Great Yarmouth	Class 153, Class 156, Class 170	2x per day
Greater Anglia	Norwich - (Brundall Gardens) - Brundall - Buckenham - Cantley - Reedham - Haddiscoe - Somerleyton - Oulton Broad North - Lowestoft	Class 153, Class 156, Class 170	1x per hour

Preceding station		Following station
Thetford	East Midlands Trains Liverpool-Norwich	Terminus
Wymondham Limited Service	East Midlands Trains Liverpool-Norwich
Wymondham	Greater Anglia Breckland Line
Terminus	Greater Anglia Greater Anglia Intercity	Diss
	Greater Anglia Bittern Line	Salhouse
	Greater Anglia Wherry Lines	Brundall Gardens
	Dutchflyer Norwich-Amsterdam	Diss
Historical railways
Terminus	Anglia Railways London Crosslink	Diss
	Great Eastern Railway Norfolk Railway	Trowse Line open, station closed
	Great Eastern Railway Yarmouth and Norwich Railway	Whitlingham Line open, station closed

[edit] Typical journey times

London Liverpool Street - 1h 55min
Cambridge - 1h 18min
Great Yarmouth (via Reedham) - 37min
Great Yarmouth (via Acle) - 33min
Sheringham - 58min
Nottingham - 3h 16min
Liverpool Lime Street - 6h 15min
Lowestoft - 46min

[edit] Bus services

Bus services depart from outside the station and on Thorpe Road. Bus services are operated by First, Anglian Bus, Simonds, Konectbus and Neaves.

1 (Station - City Centre - Harford - Swainsthorpe - Flordon - Long Stratton - Tivetshall - Gissing - Diss)
2 (Station - City Centre - Harford - Swainsthorpe - Long Stratton - Pulham - Tivetshall - Dickleburgh - Scole - Diss)
8 (Toftwood - Dereham - City Centre - Station)
12 (Norfolk and Norwich Hospital - Cringleford - City Centre - Station - Thorpe St Andrew - Dussindale Park - New Rackheath - Salhouse - Hoveton & Wroxham - Ludham - Stalham)
12A (Norfolk and Norwich Hospital - Cringleford - City Centre - Station - Thorpe St Andrew - Dussindale Park - New Rackheath - Salhouse - Hoveton & Wroxham - Stalham)
12B (Norfolk and Norwich Hospital - Cringleford - City Centre - Station - Thorpe St Andrew - Dussindale Park - New Rackheath - Salhouse - Hoveton & Wroxham (- Stalham))
17 (South Tuckswood - City Centre - Station - Brundall - Blofield)
17A (South Tuckswood - City Centre - Station - Brundall - Lingwood)
25 (University - City Centre - Station)
30 (University - City Centre - Riverside - Station)
32 (City Centre - Station - Sprowston)
35 (University - City Centre - Station)
121 (Eaton - City Centre - Station)
122A (Keswick Hall - Cringleford - City Centre - Station)
123 (City Centre - Station - Dussindale - Rackheath - Wroxham)
124 (City Centre - Station - The Plumsteads - South Walsham)
A47 (City Centre - Station - Brundall - Blofield - Acle - Great Yarmouth)