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Aylsham station's large train shed, with visiting RHDR No. 1 'Green Goddess'. This girder bridge takes the Bure Valley Railway over the River Bure. The bridge is 105 feet long and by far the largest bridge on the line. Bure Valley Railway track approaching Aylsham, showing how the formation is split between the railway and permissive footpath.
A nearby station named Wroxham is the southern terminus of the narrow gauge Bure Valley Railway, which runs to Aylsham on the trackbed of part of the former East Norfolk Railway route to County School. This heritage line opened in 1990, reusing the former line's route. The heritage station is linked to the main Hoveton & Wroxham station by a ...
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 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 ...
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.
Salhouse railway station is on the Bittern Line in Norfolk, England, serving the village of Salhouse. It is the next station along the line from Norwich, 5 miles 74 chains (9.5 km) from that terminus; the following station is Hoveton & Wroxham. Train services are operated by Greater Anglia.
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.
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]