Norwich railway station

Norwich
Location
Place	Norwich
Local authority	Norwich, Norfolk
Operations
Station code	NRW
Managed by	National Express East Anglia
Number of platforms	6
Live arrivals/departures and station information from National Rail Enquiries
Annual rail passenger usage
2004/05 *	2.122 million
2005/06 *	2.328 million
2006/07 *	2.712 million
2007/08 *	3.450 million
2008/09 *	3.569 million
2009/10 *	3.496 million
History
1 May 1844	Opened
12 December 1849	Renamed (Norwich Thorpe)
3 May 1886	Resited on adjacent site
5 May 1969	Renamed (Norwich)
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* Annual passenger usage based on sales of tickets in stated financial year(s) which end or originate at Norwich from Office of Rail Regulation statistics. Please note: methodology may vary year on year.
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Norwich is a railway station serving the city of Norwich in the English county of Norfolk. The station is the northern terminus of the Great Eastern Main Line from London Liverpool Street. It is also the terminus of railway lines from Ely, Sheringham, Great Yarmouth and Lowestoft.

History

At one time there were three railway stations in Norwich. Norwich Thorpe which is the current station now simply named Norwich, Norwich Victoria which was once the terminus for certain passenger services from the London direction until 1916 as well as a goods station until demolition in the 1970s, and Norwich City which was the terminus for the Midland and Great Northern Joint Railway line from Melton Constable which closed in 1959.

East Anglia's worst rail crash occurred at Thorpe St Andrew between Norwich and Brundall in 1874, killing 25 people and injuring 75.

When the station closed briefly for electrification works in 1986, Trowse railway station, a disused suburban station, was put back into service as the terminus of the line. It closed again when Norwich re-opened.

Former train operating company Anglia Railways ran services known as London Crosslink from here to Basingstoke via Stratford. This service started in 2000 and ended in 2002.

Train Services

The following services currently call at Norwich:

Operator	Route	Material	Frequency	Notes
East Midlands Trains	Liverpool Lime Street - Liverpool South Parkway - Widnes - Warrington Central - Manchester Oxford Road - Manchester Piccadilly - Stockport - Sheffield - (Dronfield) - Chesterfield - Alfreton - (Langley Mill) - Nottingham - Grantham - Peterborough - Ely - (Brandon) - Thetford - (Attleborough - Wymondham) - Norwich	Class 158	1x per hour
NXEA	London Liverpool Street - Colchester - Manningtree - Ipswich - Diss - Norwich	Class 90 + Mark 3 Coaching Stock	1x per hour	Not Sundays
NXEA	London Liverpool Street - Stratford - Chelmsford - Colchester - Manningtree - Ipswich - Stowmarket - Diss - Norwich	Class 90 + Mark 3 Coaching Stock	1x per hour
NXEA	Cambridge - Ely - (Shippea Hill - Lakenheath) - Brandon - Thetford - (Harling Road - Eccles Road) - Attleborough - (Spooner Row) - Wymondham - Norwich	Class 170	1x per hour
NXEA	Norwich - Salhouse - Hoveton and Wroxham - Worstead - North Walsham - Gunton - Roughton Road - Cromer - West Runton - Sheringham	Class 153, Class 156, Class 170	1x per hour
NXEA	Norwich - Brundall Gardens - Brundall - Lingwood - Acle - Great Yarmouth	Class 153, Class 156, Class 170	1x per hour
NXEA	Norwich - Brundall Gardens - Brundall - Cantley - Reedham - Berney Arms - Great Yarmouth	Class 153, Class 156, Class 170	2x per day
NXEA	Norwich - (Brundall Gardens) - Brundall - Buckenham - Cantley - Reedham - Haddiscoe - Somerleyton - Oulton Broad North - Lowestoft	Class 153, Class 156, Class 170	1x per hour

Preceding station	National Rail			Following station
Thetford		East Midlands Trains Liverpool-Norwich		Terminus
Wymondham Limited Service
Wymondham		National Express East Anglia Breckland Line
Terminus		National Express East Anglia London-Norwich		Diss
		National Express East Anglia Bittern Line		Salhouse
		National Express East Anglia Wherry Lines		Brundall Gardens
		Dutchflyer Norwich-Amsterdam		Diss
Historical railways
Terminus		Anglia Railways London Crosslink		Diss
		Great Eastern Railway Norfolk Railway		Trowse Line open, station closed
		Great Eastern Railway Yarmouth and Norwich Railway		Whitlingham Line open, station closed

Typical journey times

• London Liverpool Street - 1h 55min
• Cambridge - 1h 18min
• Great Yarmouth (via Reedham) - 37min
• Great Yarmouth (via Acle) - 33min
• Sheringham - 58min
• Nottingham - 3h 16min
• Liverpool Lime Street - 6h 15min
• Lowestoft - 46min

Gallery

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  This is a ONE train, terminated at Norwich Station

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  Trainspotters at the end of a platform at the station

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  A DBSO approaching Norwich station

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  Trains terminated at Norwich station

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  379001 arrives at Norwich on test

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  Platform 5 with the service to Lowestoft

See also

• Railways in Norfolk
• Norwich Victoria railway station
• Norwich City railway station

External links

• Train times and station information for Norwich railway station from National Rail

Coordinates: 52°37′37″N 1°18′25″E / 52.627°N 1.307°E / 52.627; 1.307