The Site today complete with original, but relocated, crossing post to the right
General information
Location
Fakenham, North Norfolk England
Grid reference
TF927297
Platforms
1
Other information
Status
Disused
History
Original company
Norfolk Railway
Pre-grouping
Great Eastern Railway
Post-grouping
London & North Eastern Railway Eastern Region of British Railways
Key dates
20 March 1849 (1849-03-20)
Opened as Fakenham
27 September 1948
Renamed Fakenham East
5 October 1964
Closed
1 January 1980
closed for freight traffic
1979 charter DMU at Fakenham
Fakenham East railway station was a railway station in the market town of Fakenham in the English county of Norfolk.
The station was opened by the Norfolk Railway on 20 March 1849 and was originally named Fakenham. Following nationalisation, it was renamed Fakenham East by British Railways on 27 September 1948; it was closed on 5 October 1964.[1]
This station is one of the possible sites protected in local plans, if needed as part of the Norfolk Orbital Railway's long-term plans to return trains to Fakenham. Any replacement station would be built on the throat of the original site, as sheltered housing has been built on the main station site. Other developments north of the former station make further extension impractical; instead the 'Norfolk Orbital' scheme proposes reopening towards the North Norfolk line at Holt and the Mid-Norfolk line at County School. The railway formation south of the station, as far as the three-arch viaduct over the River Wensum, is now owned by the Norfolk Orbital Railway.[2][3]
There was also a Fakenham West railway station, on the Midland and Great Northern Joint Railway between King's Lynn and Great Yarmouth, which closed in 1959.
Preceding station
Disused railways
Following station
Walsingham Line and station closed
Wells and Fakenham Railway
Terminus
Walsingham Line and station closed
British Rail Eastern Region Wymondham to Wells via East Dereham
Ryburgh Line and station closed
^Butt, R.V.J. (1995). The Directory of Railway Stations. Yeovil: Patrick Stephens Ltd. p. 93. ISBN 1-85260-508-1. R508.
^"Opportunity to buy land at Pudding Norton... deadline December 10th 2014". Norfolk Orbital Railway. Retrieved 27 November 2014.
^Norfolk Orbital Railway project gets closer to reviving old link to Fakenham
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