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Walsingham was a railway station on the Wells and Fakenham Railway, later part of the Great Eastern Railway. It opened on 1 December 1857, and served the villages of Great Walsingham and Little Walsingham .
Walsingham railway station is located in Walsingham, Norfolk, on the narrow gauge Wells and Walsingham Light Railway. [1] It was opened in 1982. It is located north of the original station , which has been converted into a Russian Orthodox Church.
Owing to the difficulty of obtaining authority to operate across main roads via level crossings, the railway operates between a new-build station located on the A149 approximately 1 ⁄ 2 mile (0.80 km) south of the original terminus at Wells, and a similar new terminus at Walsingham situated a short distance north of the original GER station ...
[1] [2] Walsingham is 27 miles (43 kilometres) northwest of Norwich. The civil parish includes Little Walsingham and Great Walsingham, together with Egmere (a depopulated medieval village at grid reference), and has an area of 18.98 km 2. At the 2011 census, it had a population of 819. [3] [4] Walsingham is a major centre of pilgrimage.
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The railway was rebuilt and reopened in July that year. [1] In 1980, Francis sold the Wells Harbour Railway and established the Wells and Walsingham Light Railway on part of the trackbed of the dismantled Wymondham to Wells line. The railway was sold again in 1988, the new owners finding that it was in poor condition.
Wells on Sea railway station is located in Wells-next-the-Sea, Norfolk on the narrow gauge Wells and Walsingham Light Railway. [1] It was opened in 1982. It is located south of the former level crossing on the A149 Coast Road, close to the former junction with the West Norfolk Junction Railway. The original station, which has been converted to ...
Since 1982, there has been a newer station at Wells, the terminus of the narrow gauge Wells and Walsingham Light Railway. [19] This station is located just south of where the original standard-gauge line crossed the main A149 coast road on the level.