Wymondham railway station

Wymondham
Location
Place	Wymondham
Local authority	South Norfolk, Norfolk
Operations
Station code	WMD
Managed by	National Express East Anglia
Platforms in use	2
Live arrivals/departures and station information from National Rail
Annual rail passenger usage
2004/05 *	95,998
2005/06 *	100,118
2006/07 *	109,610
2007/08 *	115,983
History
Opened 30 July 1845 (30 July 1845)
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A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z
* Annual passenger usage based on sales of tickets in stated financial year(s) which end or originate at Wymondham from Office of Rail Regulation statistics.
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Wymondham is a railway station in the town of Wymondham in the English county of Norfolk. The station is served by local services operated by East Midlands Trains and National Express East Anglia on the Breckland Line 17 km (10¾ miles) west of Norwich to Peterborough and Cambridge.

Wymondham station is also the junction for the Mid-Norfolk Railway, although currently their passenger trains, running 11½ miles (19 km) north to East Dereham, operate from the separate Wymondham Abbey station. The two stations are about a mile apart.

Wymondham was also a junction for a line via Ashwellthorpe railway station.

Until April 2009 there was a Telegraph pole route still in operation between here and Brandon. This was removed gradually during the early part of 2009 and was the last section remaining in England and one of the last remaining in the UK.

Service

National Express East Anglia operate an hourly service eastbound to Norwich (12mins) and westbound to Cambridge (62mins). East Midlands Trains operate 4 daily eastbound services to Norwich and 2 daily westbound services to Ely, Peterborough and Liverpool Lime Street with a daily Cambridge service.

On Sundays, National Express East Anglia operate a predominantly hourly service to Cambridge and return to Norwich.

A Ticket Office was re-established by National Express East Anglia at Wymondham in 2005, 39 years after the station had become an unstaffed halt under British Railways. The Ticket Office is open on weekday mornings from 05.45 until 10.10hrs.

Wymondham Railway Station was named "Small Station of the Year" in the 2006 National Rail Awards.

The rural stations restaffing initiative won the inaugural "Putting Passengers First Award" at the 2007 National Rail Awards.

Wymondham was named Best Station' at the 'Anglia in Bloom' awards in 2008, and the Brief Encounter Restaurant and the Railway Ticket office were jointly awarded 1st place as 'Best Retail Outlet' at the 2008 'Community Rail Partnership' awards.

Rolling stock

Three items of rolling stock are displayed on a short section of isolated line laid close to the station, originally intended to house a camping coach.

Diesel locomotives

• Drewry 0-4-0 diesel shunter VF D297 DC 2583 of 1956, disguised as a Class 04 tram locomotive

Wagons

• BR tube wagon
• DS55466 LBSCR 25ton brake van, ex-Stratford crane mess van

Future

The preserved Mid Norfolk Railway has proposed extending their own line to an adjacent station, which would offer easy interchange with National Rail services. More ambitiously, the proposed Norfolk Orbital Railway would see services restored between Wymondham and the Norfolk Coast. This would involve use of the track owned by the Mid Norfolk Railway. Wymondham Abbey would be the next station northwards. If direct services between Norwich and King's Lynn were ever restored, it is likely they would run through Wymondham.

External links

• Website Wymondham Station's own website
• Map sources for Wymondham railway station

• Train times and station information for Wymondham railway station from National Rail
• Photographs of Wymondham railway station

Preceding station		National Rail		Following station
Attleborough		National Express East Anglia Breckland Line		Norwich
Spooner Row Limited Service
Attleborough Limited Service		East Midlands Trains Liverpool-Norwich Limited Service
	Heritage railways
Interchange with Wymondham Abbey railway station on the Mid-Norfolk Railway

Coordinates: 52°33′53″N 1°07′04″E / 52.56484°N 1.11765°E / 52.56484; 1.11765