North Walsham railway station (formerly known as North Walsham Main) is on the

Bittern Line The Bittern Line is a railway branch line in Norfolk, England, that links to . It passes through the Broads on its route to an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty on the north Norfolk coast. It is named after the bittern, a rare bird found in t ...

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, England, serving the town of

North Walsham North Walsham is a market town and civil parish in Norfolk, England, within the North Norfolk district. Demography The civil parish has an area of and in the 2011 census had a population of 12,634. For the purposes of local government, the pa ...

. It is down the line from , between to the south and 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

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from Norwich to Cromer High, while a nearby station named served the former lines to (either via or via and ) and (via ). 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

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". The station is the site of the only

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on the route (although trains can also pass in the station at ), 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;

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dispatches regular bulk trainloads of petrochemicals (

gas condensate Natural-gas condensate, also called natural gas liquids, is a low-density mixture of hydrocarbon liquids that are present as gaseous components in the raw natural gas produced from many natural gas fields. Some gas species within the raw natur ...

piped in from various offshore North Sea gas fields) from here to . Aggregate traffic (in the form of spent railway ballast) has also been handled here in the past.

Services

Trains run hourly between Norwich and Sheringham. There are fewer services on Sundays, which alternate every hour between a stopping service (calling at all stations) and a semi-fast service that only calls at

Cromer Cromer ( ) is a coastal town and civil parish on the north coast of the English county of Norfolk. It is north of Norwich, north-northeast of London and east of Sheringham on the North Sea coastline. The local government authorities are Nor ...

and Hoveton & Wroxham.

References

External links

The Bittern Line official website

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