Disused Stations: Whitwell & Reepham Station

Station Name: WHITWELL & REEPHAM

[Source: Nick Catford]

Date opened:	1.7.1882
Location:	On the south side of Whitwell Road
Company on opening:	Lynn & Fakenham Railway
Date closed to passengers:	2.3.1959
Date closed completely:	1.5.1964
Company on closing:	British Railways (Eastern Region)
Present state:	Little has changed since 1976, the station building, goods shed and platforms are still extant, only the track has gone. After remaining derelict for many years the station was offered for sale in Autumn 2006.
County:	Norfolk
OS Grid Ref:	TG091217
Date of visit:	March 1976

Notes: The track remained in use until 1985 to facilitate concrete product movements from Lenwade; this involved the construction of the Themelthorpe Curve west of Reepham linking the Wroxham - County School line with that from Norwich - Melton Constable.. Once concrete production ceased, there was no reason to keep the line open and it was closed. A long distance footpath and cycle track now passes through the station and there is a car patk at the station. At one time there was a plan to dismantle the station building and re-erect it at Holt on the North Norfolk Railway.

See Cycling The Mattiottt's Way web site
Enjoying the Norfolk Countryside web site

See also Reepham Station

Photo:Whitwell & Reepham Station in March 1976. Note the track has been realigned for the concrete traffic, it no longer passes close to the end of the platform.
Photo by Nick Catford

Whitwell & Reepham Station in May 1997. Slightly less overgrown than it was in 1990 (see below)
Photo by Peter Boggis

Whitwell & Reepham Station in Autumn 2006

March 1976

August 1990

[Source: Nick Catford]

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