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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, between Worstead to the south and Gunton to the north. Train services are operated by Greater Anglia.




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


All services at North Walsham are operated by Greater Anglia using Class 755 BMUs.
The typical service on all days of the week is one train per hour in each direction between Norwich and Sheringham via Cromer.




References






External links



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

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• North Walsham railway station
• North Walsham
• North Walsham Town railway station
• North Walsham and Dilham Canal
• East Norfolk Railway
• Norfolk and Suffolk Joint Railway
• North Norfolk Railway
• Midland and Great Northern Joint Railway
• Stratford station
• Worstead railway station