Gunton railway station on the Bittern Line in

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 ...

, England, serves the villages of Lower Street,

Thorpe Market Thorpe Market is a village in the English county of Norfolk. The village is 4.4 miles south of Cromer, and 20.5 miles north of Norwich. The nearest railway station is at Gunton for the Bittern Line which runs between Sheringham, Cromer and Nor ...

and Southrepps. It is from , between to the south and to the north. There is no village named Gunton: the station is in the parish of Thorpe Market and closest to Lower Street. It was built primarily for the convenience of Lord Suffield, who lived at nearby Gunton Hall, a major investor in the original East Norfolk Railway which built the line from Norwich to

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 ...

.Bittern Line
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with a basic shelter. Originally the location of a

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, the northbound platform and station buildings are preserved but now privately owned. There is an unrestricted

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at the station that can accommodate about ten vehicles. The station is managed by Greater Anglia, which also operates all passenger trains that call.

Services

, the typical off-peak service at Gunton is one train every two hours in each direction between Norwich and Sheringham. At peak times, service frequency is increased to one train per hour. All services are operated by bi-mode Class 755 units.

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