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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 the line through Aylsham was formally closed on 6 January 1982.
The railway is built on part of the trackbed of the East Norfolk Railway (ENR). The ENR started in 1877 when the East Norfolk Railway opened from Norwich to Cromer, with an extension from Wroxham to Aylsham in 1880. The western extension was planned by Edward Wilson & Co. in 1876, with the line being constructed by William Waddell at a cost of ...
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 ...
The sign of the former Aylsham North railway station is now affixed to the fence of the house opposite the road. Aylsham North railway station (originally Aylsham Town and later known as Aylsham) was a station in Aylsham, Norfolk, on the Midland and Great Northern Joint Railway line from the Midlands to the Norfolk coast. It was closed in 1959 ...
Aylsham (/ ˈ eɪ l ʃ əm / or / ˈ eɪ l s əm /) is a historic market town and civil parish on the River Bure in north Norfolk, England, nearly 9 mi (14 km) north of Norwich.The river rises near Melton Constable, 11 miles (18 km) upstream from Aylsham and continues to Great Yarmouth and the North Sea, although it was only made navigable after 1779, allowing grain, coal and timber to be ...
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.
[2] [page needed] County School railway station was built by the Great Eastern Railway in 1886, to serve the boarding school from which it took its name and following the completion of the East Norfolk Railway's branch line from Wroxham and Aylsham in 1882. In 1903, the Norfolk County School became the Watts Naval School, although the station ...
The original station buildings are visible in the distance. 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.