North Walsham railway station

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General information
Location	North Norfolk
Managed by	Greater Anglia
Platforms	2
Other information
Station code	NWA
Key dates
20 October 1874	Opened as North Walsham
27 September 1948	Renamed North Walsham Main
?	Renamed North Walsham

North Walsham railway station (formerly known as North Walsham Main) is on the Bittern Line in Norfolk, England, serving the town of North Walsham. It is 16 miles (26 km) down the line from Norwich and is situated between Worstead to the south and Gunton to the north.

The station is managed by Greater Anglia, which also operates all passenger trains that call.

Description

Historically, the town was served by two adjacent railway stations; this existing station dating from 1874 served the Great Eastern Railway from Norwich to Cromer High, while a nearby station named North Walsham Town served the former lines to Melton Constable (either via Aylsham or via Mundesley-on-Sea and Sheringham) and Great Yarmouth (via Potter Heigham). North Walsham Town closed on 28 February 1959, with the "Main" station renamed simply "North Walsham".

In 2010 the station signs were changed to read "North Walsham, home of Paston College".

The station is the site of the only passing loop on the route (although trains can also pass in the station at Cromer), which has been worked remotely from Norwich since the line was re-signalled in 2000. The station goods yard, meanwhile, is the last operational freight location on the line; GB Railfreight dispatches regular bulk trainloads of petrochemicals (gas condensate piped in from various offshore North Sea gas fields) from here to Harwich International. Aggregate traffic (in the form of spent railway ballast) has also been handled here in the past.

Services

As of December 2016, the typical off-peak service at North Walsham is one train per hour in each direction between Norwich and Sheringham.

External links

• The Bittern Line official website
• North Walsham station (the south west one of the pair of stations) on navigable 1946 O. S. map
• Map sources for North Walsham railway station

• Train times and station information for North Walsham railway station from National Rail

Preceding station		National Rail		Following station
Worstead		Greater Anglia Bittern Line		Gunton