Aylsham South railway station

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This article is about the former Great Eastern Railway station. For the current Bure Valley Railway station, see Aylsham railway station. For the former Midland and Great Northern Joint Railway station, see, see Aylsham North railway station.

Aylsham South
Aylsham South station.jpg
LocationAylsham, Broadland, Norfolk
England
Grid referenceTG195264
Platforms2
Other information
StatusDisused
History
Pre-groupingGreat Eastern Railway
Post-groupingLondon and North Eastern Railway
Eastern Region of British Railways
Key dates
1 January 1880Opened (Aylsham)
27 September 1948Renamed (Aylsham South)
15 September 1952Closed to passengers
1 March 1977Closed to freight
10 July 1990Aylsham railway station (BVR) opened on same site

Aylsham South railway station served the town of Aylsham in Norfolk from 1880 to 1981. The period station buildings were subsequently demolished in 1989 to allow for the construction of Aylsham railway station, the northern terminus of the Bure Valley Railway, a narrow gauge operation which reuses some of the trackbed of the old railway line.

History[]

Opened by the East Norfolk Railway, then run by the Great Eastern Railway, it became part of the London and North Eastern Railway during the Grouping of 1923. The station then passed on to the Eastern Region of British Railways on nationalisation in 1948.

In 1952 the passenger service stopped, but the freight service continued until 1977. In 1990, the station buildings - then one of the most complete remaining Great Eastern stations in Norfolk, were obliterated to make way for the Bure Valley Railway whose headquarters now occupy the site.[1]


Preceding station   Disused railways   Following station
Cawston
Line and station closed 		  Great Eastern   Buxton Lamas
Line and station closed

References[]

  1. ^ Norfolk By Rail.[permanent dead link]
  • Butt, R. V. J. (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. ISBN 978-1-85260-508-7. OCLC 60251199.
  • Jowett, Alan (2000). Jowett's Nationalised Railway Atlas (1st ed.). Penryn, Cornwall: Atlantic Transport Publishers. ISBN 978-0-906899-99-1. OCLC 228266687.
  • Jowett, Alan (March 1989). Jowett's Railway Atlas of Great Britain and Ireland: From Pre-Grouping to the Present Day (1st ed.). Sparkford: Patrick Stephens Ltd. ISBN 978-1-85260-086-0. OCLC 22311137.

External sources[]

Coordinates: 52°47′26″N 1°15′14″E / 52.79050°N 1.25393°E / 52.79050; 1.25393

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