North Walsham | |
Symbol Location: | gb |
Symbol: | rail |
Borough: | North Walsham, North Norfolk |
Country: | England |
Grid Name: | Grid reference |
Manager: | Greater Anglia |
Platforms: | 2 |
Code: | NWA |
Classification: | DfT category F1 |
Years: | 20 October 1874 |
Events: | Opened as North Walsham |
Years1: | 27 September 1948 |
Events1: | Renamed North Walsham Main |
Years2: | ? |
Events2: | Renamed North Walsham |
Footnotes: | Passenger statistics from the Office of Rail and Road |
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 16miles down the line from, between to the south and to the north. Train services are operated by Greater Anglia.
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 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 Paston College".
The station is the site of the only passing loop 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; GB Railfreight dispatches regular bulk trainloads of petrochemicals (gas condensate piped in from various offshore North Sea gas fields) from here to .[1] Aggregate traffic (in the form of spent railway ballast) has also been handled here in the past.
All services at North Walsham are operated by Greater Anglia using BMUs.
The typical service on all days of the week is one train per hour in each direction between and via .