Place West Dereham Pre-grouping Great Eastern Railway Platforms in use 2 | Grid reference TL656997 1 August 1882 (1882-08-01) Station opens as Abbey | |
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Area King's Lynn and West Norfolk Post-grouping London and North Eastern Railway Original company Downham and Stoke Ferry Railway Similar Spinks Lane railway st, Holme Hale railway st, Smeeth Road railway st, Docking railway station, Narborough and Pentney r | ||
Abbey and West Dereham railway station was a railway station on the line between Downham Market and Stoke Ferry. It served the village of West Dereham and the nearby abbey, in Norfolk, England.
History
Opened as Abbey by the Downham and Stoke Ferry Railway on 1 August 1882, the line was run from the beginning by the Great Eastern Railway (GER). The station was renamed twice: on 1 January 1886 it became Abbey for West Dereham; and in 1923 as a result of the Grouping the GER became part of the London and North Eastern Railway and the new owners renamed the station Abbey and West Dereham, this occurring on 1 July 1923. The station closed to passenger traffic on 22 September 1930.
The line became part of the Eastern Region of British Railways on nationalisation in 1948.