Fakenham East railway station

Fakenham East

The Site today complete with original, but relocated, crossing post to the right
Location
Place Fakenham
Area North Norfolk, Norfolk
Grid reference TF927297
Operations
Pre-grouping Eastern Counties Railway
Great Eastern Railway
Post-grouping London & North Eastern Railway
Eastern Region of British Railways
Platforms 1
History
20 March 1849 Opened (Fakenham)
27 September 1948 Renamed (Fakenham East)
5 October 1964 Closed
1 January 1980 closed for freight traffic
Disused railway stations in the United Kingdom
Closed railway stations in Britain
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1979 charter DMU at Fakenham

Fakenham East railway station was a railway station in the market town of Fakenham in the English county of Norfolk.

This station is one of the possible sites protected in local plans in case it is needed to be restored as part of the Mid-Norfolk Railway's eventual plans to return to Fakenham. Any replacement station would be built on the throat of the original site, as sheltered housing has been built on the main station site. Other developments north of the former station make further extension of the Mid-Norfolk Railway towards Walsingham and Wells impracticable, but the 'Norfolk Orbital' scheme proposes reopening instead towards the North Norfolk line at Holt. The railway formation south of the station, as far as the three-arch viaduct over the River Wensum is now owned by the Norfolk Orbital Railway.[1][2]

There was also a Fakenham West railway station on the Midland and Great Northern Joint Railway between King's Lynn and Great Yarmouth which closed in 1959.

Preceding station Disused railways Following station
Walsingham
Line and station closed		   Wells and Fakenham Railway   Terminus
Walsingham
Line and station closed		   British Rail
Eastern Region
Wymondham to Wells via East Dereham		   Ryburgh
Line and station closed
  Proposed Heritage railways
Terminus   Mid-Norfolk Railway   Ryburgh
Line and station closed

References

  1. ↑ "Opportunity to buy land at Pudding Norton... deadline December 10th 2014". Norfolk Orbital Railway. Retrieved 27 November 2014.
  2. ↑ Norfolk Orbital Railway project gets closer to reviving old link to Fakenham

See also

Coordinates: 52°49′51″N 0°51′35″E / 52.8308°N 0.8596°E / 52.8308; 0.8596

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