Roughton Road railway station is on the

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, England, on the outskirts of the town of

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 ...

. It takes its name from the street on which it is located, and is several miles north of the village of

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. It is down the line from and is situated between and stations. It is a modern halt station that was opened by

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in 1985. Today it is managed by Greater Anglia, which also operates all passenger trains that call. It is unstaffed and consists of a single platform. The station is approximately half a mile from the site of a closed station called , the former terminus of the

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 ...

(GER), and is located on the site of the former junction between the GER and the

Norfolk and Suffolk Joint Railway The Norfolk and Suffolk Joint Railway (NSJR) was a British joint railway company. The NSJR was owned by the Great Eastern Railway (GER) and the Midland and Great Northern Joint Railway (MGNJ) and consisted of two distinct sections: a line between ...

, at the entrance to the disused

Cromer Tunnel The Cromer Tunnel was built by the Norfolk and Suffolk Joint Railway to take their Cromer Beach to Mundesley line under the Great Eastern's Cromer High to Norwich line. Both portals of the tunnels are open but undergrowth and modern housing ...

Services

All services at Roughton Road are operated by Greater Anglia using

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. The typical off-peak service is one train every two hours in each direction between and via . During the peak hours, the service is increased to one train per hour in each direction.

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