North Walsham railway station

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.

North Walsham
Location
PlaceNorth Walsham
Local authorityNorth Norfolk
Grid referenceTG281297
Operations
Station codeNWA
Managed byGreater Anglia
Number of platforms2
DfT categoryF1
Live arrivals/departures, station information and onward connections
from National Rail Enquiries
Annual rail passenger usage*
2014/15 0.240 million
2015/16 0.247 million
2016/17 0.251 million
2017/18 0.258 million
2018/19 0.265 million
History
20 October 1874Opened as North Walsham
27 September 1948Renamed North Walsham Main
?Renamed North Walsham
National Rail – UK railway stations
  • Annual estimated passenger usage based on sales of tickets in stated financial year(s) which end or originate at North Walsham from Office of Rail and Road statistics. Methodology may vary year on year.

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 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

The typical off-peak service at North Walsham in December 2016 was one train per hour in each direction between Norwich and Sheringham.

References
  1. Shannon, Paul (February 2011). "Best of British: GBRF's first ten years". Rail Express. No. 177. p. 17. ISSN 1466-3562.
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