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Disused railway station in Aldeby, Norfolk

Aldeby
Remains of Aldeby station in 2007
General information
LocationAldeby, South Norfolk
England
Coordinates52°29′53″N 1°36′22″E / 52.498019°N 1.606133°E / 52.498019; 1.606133
Grid referenceTM448950
Platforms2
Other information
StatusDisused
History
Original companyEast Suffolk Railway
Pre-groupingGreat Eastern Railway
Post-groupingLondon and North Eastern Railway
Eastern Region of British Railways
Key dates
4 December 1854Opened
15 May 1858Closed
1 June 1859reopened
2 November 1959Closed to passengers
28 December 1964Closed to freight

Aldeby railway station was a station in Aldeby, in the English county of Norfolk. It was on the line between Great Yarmouth and Beccles; the station was opened in 1854 when the line from Ipswich to Beccles was extended northwards. It was closed in 1959.

History

Opened by the East Suffolk Railway, it subsequently joined the Great Eastern Railway, it became part of the London and North Eastern Railway during the Grouping of 1923. The line then passed on to the Eastern Region of British Railways on nationalisation in 1948. It was then closed by the British Transport Commission.

Former Services
Preceding station   Disused railways   Following station
Haddiscoe High Level   Great Eastern
Yarmouth-Beccles Line
1859-1959
  Beccles

Present day

The former railway bridge is still visible on Station Road. There is a large building on the station site and the former course of the railway can be tracked through the fields. As at 2008, the goods yard is now a used car dealership and scrap yard, and as previously noted has several large buildings on the site. The station house is mainly unchanged in outward appearance but is now a private house.

References

  1. Railway Passenger Stations by M.Quick page 45
  • Butt, R.V.J. (1995). The Directory of Railway Stations. Patrick Stephens Ltd. ISBN 1-85260-508-1.
  • C.R., Clinker (October 1978). Clinker's Register of Closed Passenger Stations and Goods Depots in England, Scotland and Wales 1830-1977. Bristol: Avon-Anglia Publications & Services. ISBN 0-905466-19-5.
  • Jowett, A. (2000). Jowett's Nationalised Railway Atlas. Atlantic Publishing. ISBN 0-906899-99-0.

External links

Disused railway stations of Norfolk
Great Eastern
Railway
Great Eastern Main Line
Breckland line
Fen line & environs
Downham and Stoke Ferry Railway
King's Lynn to Dereham
King's Lynn to Hunstanton
Heacham to Wells
Waveney Valley line
Wymondham to Wroxham Line
Other lines
Midland and
Great Northern
Norwich to Cromer Branch
Walpole to Melton Constable
Melton Constable to
Great Yarmouth Branch
Norfolk and
Suffolk
Cromer to North Walsham
Great Yarmouth to Hopton
Upwell Tramway


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