Disused railway lines and closed stations in Norfolk

314 miles of disused railway
134 closed stations
31 stations open today
37 named lost lines

Norfolk has 314 miles of disused railway and 134 closed stations, against 31 stations still open today. More stations have closed here than remain: 4.3 lost for every one still served. The longest lost line is the Peterborough to Yarmouth Line, with 64 miles of its route inside Norfolk.

See Norfolk’s lost railways on the map

The map opens on the county with the disused lines and closed stations drawn over today’s network. Tap any closed station for its history, or any grey line for its name.

What is left of it

The 314 miles of lost railway in Norfolk break down as 243 miles with the track lifted and the trackbed still traceable and 70 miles built over or ploughed out, with little or no trace left. These are OpenStreetMap’s own distinctions, made by the people who surveyed each stretch, so a line can appear under more than one state along its length.

Lost railway lines in Norfolk

37 named lines with disused track in the county, longest stretch first. The mileage is the part inside Norfolk; a line crossing the border is counted on both sides.

Line	Miles in county
Peterborough to Yarmouth Line	64
Norwich City to Sheringham Branch	25
Lynn and Dereham Railway	20
Heacham to Wells-Next-The-Sea Branch	18
Forncett Wymondham and Wells Line	16
King's Lynn to Hunstanton Branch	15
Wissington Tramway	12
Wroxham to County School Line	11
Waveney Valley Line	10
Yarmouth–Beccles line	10
Runton to North Walsham Line	9.7
Thetford Swaffham	9.4
Swaffham Branch	8.9
Wisbech Goods Branch	8.5
Downham and Stoke Ferry Railway	7.1
Wisbech and Upwell Tramway	5.5
Wymondham to Flordon Line	4.7
Yarmouth–Lowestoft Line	4.4
Yarmouth Road	4.0
Gaywood Junction - Bawsey Sidings	3.2
North Walsham Bypass	3.2
Yarmouth Beach to Gorleston North Line	2.4
Thetford to Bury St Edmunds Line	2.0
Clarke's Drove Siding	1.5
Catfield Bypass	1.2
Norwich Victoria Goods Branch	1.2
Paston Way	1.2
King's Lynn Harbour Branch	1.0
Yarmouth to Beccles Line	0.9
Cromer High Branch	0.6
Yarmouth North Quay to Caister Road Line	0.6
Austin Street Branch	0.5
Yarmouth North Quay Branch	0.5
Wells Harbour Branch	0.4
King's Lynn Docks Branch	0.4
Haddiscoe South West Curve	0.3
South Lynn Branch	0.3

Closed railway stations in Norfolk

All 134 closed and former stations in Norfolk, A to Z. Each name opens the map on the station; the Wikipedia link, where there is one, has its history.

Stations still open in Norfolk

31 stations in Norfolk still have a train service. The busiest are Norwich (4.6 million a year), King's Lynn (853,200 a year), Diss (701,420 a year), Downham Market (440,550 a year) and Great Yarmouth (439,660 a year). Every one has its own page, with the stations you can reach from it directly and how often the trains run: see the A to Z of stations.

Lost railways nearby

Suffolk, Cambridgeshire and Lincolnshire.

About these figures

The disused lines are the stretches OpenStreetMap records as disused, abandoned, razed or dismantled railway, measured segment by segment and given to the county each segment lies in. The closed stations are Wikidata’s record of British railway stations no longer in service, kept where they are not within a few hundred metres of a station still open. County boundaries are today’s ceremonial counties, with unitary authorities folded into the county they sit in, from the Office for National Statistics (Open Government Licence v3.0; contains OS data © Crown copyright and database right 2024). Historic county lines were different, and a closed station a mile over the border is on the neighbouring page.

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