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.
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| General information | |||||
| Location | North Walsham, North Norfolk England | ||||
| Grid reference | TG281297 | ||||
| Managed by | Greater Anglia | ||||
| Platforms | 2 | ||||
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| Station code | NWA | ||||
| Classification | DfT category F1 | ||||
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| 20 October 1874 | Opened as North Walsham | ||||
| 27 September 1948 | Renamed North Walsham Main | ||||
| ? | Renamed North Walsham | ||||
| Passengers | |||||
| 2018/19 |  0.265 million | ||||
| 2019/20 |  0.226 million | ||||
| 2020/21 | 54,894 | ||||
| 2021/22 | 0.221 million | ||||
| 2022/23 | 0.243 million | ||||
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Description
editHistorically, 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.[1] Aggregate traffic (in the form of spent railway ballast) has also been handled here in the past.
Services
editAll 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.[2]
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References
edit- ^ Shannon, Paul (February 2011). "Best of British: GBRF's first ten years". Rail Express. No. 177. p. 17. ISSN 1466-3562.
- ^ Table 16 National Rail timetable, May 2023
External links
edit- 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
52°49′01″N 1°23′05″E / 52.8169°N 1.3846°E
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