Reepham (Norfolk) was a railway station in Reepham,

Norfolk Norfolk () is a ceremonial and non-metropolitan county in East Anglia in England. It borders Lincolnshire to the north-west, Cambridgeshire to the west and south-west, and Suffolk to the south. Its northern and eastern boundaries are the No ...

. It was opened in 1882 and closed to passengers in 1952 and finally shut to goods services in 1981.Subterranea Britannica: SB-Sites:Reepham Station
/ref> The tracks through Reepham remained in place until 1985, latterly serving a concrete factory in

Lenwade Lenwade is a village in the civil parish of Great Witchingham, Norfolk, situated in the Wensum Valley adjacent to the A1067 road south-east of Fakenham and some north-west of Norwich. The River Ainse (or Eyn) joins the Wensum at Lenwade. In 20 ...

. The trackbed is currently preserved as part of the Marriott's Way long-distance footpath.

Future operations

A speculative plan to create a

heritage railway A heritage railway or heritage railroad (US usage) is a railway operated as living history to re-create or preserve railway scenes of the past. Heritage railways are often old railway lines preserved in a state depicting a period (or periods) i ...

between Reepham station and Whitwell station has been proposed by the owner of the latter station, which is being developed as a railway centre. This would include relaying the Themelthorpe Curve, built to link the former

Great Eastern Railway The Great Eastern Railway (GER) was a pre-grouping British railway company, whose main line linked London Liverpool Street to Norwich and which had other lines through East Anglia. The company was grouped into the London and North Eastern R ...

and Midland and Great Northern Joint Railway routes - formerly the tightest radius curve on the

British Rail British Railways (BR), which from 1965 traded as British Rail, was a state-owned company that operated most of the overground rail transport in Great Britain from 1948 to 1997. It was formed from the nationalisation of the Big Four British rai ...

network.

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Disused railway stations in Norfolk Former Great Eastern Railway stations Railway stations in Great Britain opened in 1882 Railway stations in Great Britain closed in 1952 Reepham, Norfolk {{EastEngland-railstation-stub