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It was created on the original disused full-gauge bed of a defunct passenger service to incorporate a new, adjacent pedestrian footpath. The railway runs from Wroxham to Aylsham (9 miles or 14.5 kilometres) and is Norfolk's second longest heritage railway. It uses both steam and diesel locomotives.
The line between Themelthorpe and Wroxham remained in use as a goods line until the 1980s. The first station after Wroxham was at Coltishall, followed by Buxton railway station (Norfolk) and Aylsham. This section is still in use as the Bure Valley Railway. Although the passenger service ended in 1952, freight traffic continued until 1981 and ...
Attleborough railway station is on the Breckland line in the east of England, serving the market town of Attleborough, Norfolk. The line runs between Cambridge in the west and Norwich in the east. Attleborough is situated between Eccles Road and Spooner Row , 108 miles 19 chains (174.2 km) from London Liverpool Street via Ely .
Aylsham South railway station, which first occupied this site, opened in 1880. [1] It was operated by the East Norfolk Railway, then the Great Eastern Railway, and became part of the London and North Eastern Railway during the Grouping of 1923. The station passed into the Eastern Region of British Railways on nationalisation in 1948.
The line from Wroxham to Aylsham was reopened in 1990 as a narrow gauge railway. The station at Coltishall was reopened as part of this development. [3] The station is a request stop, although many trains are obliged to stop here as it is also a passing place on the single-track railway. There are two platforms.
Hoveton & Wroxham railway station is on the Bittern Line in Norfolk, England, serving the village of Hoveton and the adjacent village of Wroxham (the two settlements are usually regarded as one). [ 1 ] [ 2 ] It is 8 miles 61 chains (14.1 km) down the line from Norwich and is situated between Salhouse and Worstead .
The Norfolk Orbital Railway is a proposal to link the Mid-Norfolk Railway and the North Norfolk Railway to create a line running from Sheringham to Wymondham, restoring regular services to Fakenham and Melton Constable. [4] In 2008 Hunstanton Council considered a proposal to re-open the line from King's Lynn, but decided against it. [5]
Wroxham railway station is located near the villages of Wroxham and Hoveton in Norfolk, and is the southern terminus of the Bure Valley Railway, a minimum gauge operation which reuses some of the trackbed of a former standard gauge branch line.