North Walsham railway station 2.9

North Walsham railway station is on the Bittern Line in Norfolk, England, serving the town of North Walsham. It is 14mi down the line from and is situated between to the south and to the north.The station is managed by Greater Anglia, which also operates all passenger trains that call.DescriptionHistorically, the town was served by two adjacent railway stations; this existing station dating from 1874 served the Great Eastern Railway from Norwich to Cromer High, while a nearby station named served the former lines to and. North Walsham Town closed on 28 February 1959, with the "Main" station renamed simply "North Walsham".In 2010 the station signs were changed to read "North Walsham, home of Paston College".The station is the site of the only passing loop on the route, which has been worked remotely from Norwich since the line was re-signalled in 2000. The station goods yard, meanwhile, is the last operational freight location on the line; GB Railfreight dispatches regular bulk trainloads of petrochemicals (gas condensate piped in from various offshore North Sea gas fields) from here to. Aggregate traffic (in the form of spent railway ballast) has also been handled here in the past.Services, the typical off-peak service at North Walsham is one train per hour in each direction between Norwich and Sheringham.