Hellesdon railway station

Hellesdon
The station in February 2022
General information
Location	Hellesdon, Norfolk England
Grid reference	TG197101
Platforms	1
Other information
Status	Disused
History
Original company	Lynn and Fakenham Railway [1]
Pre-grouping	Midland and Great Northern Joint Railway
Key dates
2 December 1882 [1]	Opened
15 September 1952	Closed to passengers
13 July 1964 [2]	closed for freight
Location

v t e Norwich Branch
Legend
( To Cromer) ( To King's Lynn) Melton Constable ( To North Walsham) Hindolvestone Guestwick Whitwell and Reepham Lenwade Attlebridge Drayton Hellesdon Norwich City

Hellesdon railway station is a former railway station in Norfolk, England, which served the area of Hellesdon, today virtually an outer suburb of Norwich. It opened on 2 December 1882 and was closed on 15 September 1952, ^[1] six years before passenger service was withdrawn along the rest of the line. ^[3]

Parts of the platform walls still survive today on both sides of the tracks, however the station itself has long since been demolished and the site is extremely overgrown. An entrance gate next to the bridge spanning the River Wensum still exists. Many of the station's features are hidden in the undergrowth including fence posts, signal box foundations and telegraph poles. As the building was demolished, half of the platform was removed from the building end. The bridge was also removed to change the road plan.

In October 2010, the platform wall was cleared by the amateur group Friends of Norwich City Station (FONCS), with the station name board posts visible. The surface of the platform and the cattle dock are planned to be cleared in the future. ^[4]

A project to reclaim the station commenced in 2017 and was completed in the summer of 2018. ^[5]

The railway's track bed forms part of Marriott's Way long distance footpath. ^[6]

Preceding station	Disused railways			Following station
Norwich City Line and station closed		Midland and Great Northern Norwich Branch		Drayton Line and station closed

References

1. Butt, R. V. J. (October 1995). The Directory of Railway Stations: details every public and private passenger station, halt, platform and stopping place, past and present (1st ed.). Sparkford: Patrick Stephens Ltd. p. 118. ISBN   978-1-85260-508-7. OCLC   60251199. OL   11956311M.
2. "Disused Stations: Hellesdon Station".
3. "Peter Steward". Archived from the original on 28 May 2009. Retrieved 29 March 2008.
4. News report ^{[ dead link ]} Retrieved 23 April 2011
5. "Hellesdon Station Reclamation Project". The Marriott's Way Heritage Trail Team. 25 July 2018. Retrieved 1 August 2022.
6. "Hellesdon Railway Platform Reclamation". Marriott's Way Heritage Trail. Retrieved 26 July 2022.

https://web.archive.org/web/20101107064140/http://hellesdonandcitystation.webs.com/

External links

• Hellesdon station on navigable 1946 O. S. map

52°38′38″N1°14′48″E / 52.6440°N 1.2468°E / 52.6440; 1.2468