Place Fakenham Grid reference TF927297 Platforms in use 1 | Area North Norfolk, Norfolk 1857 Opened (Fakenham) | |
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Pre-grouping Eastern Counties Railway
Great Eastern Railway Post-grouping London & North Eastern Railway
Eastern Region of British Railways Similar Ryburgh railway station, Fakenham West railway st, Hardingham railway station, Holme Hale railway st, Abbey and West Dereham | ||
Fakenham East railway station was a railway station in the market town of Fakenham in the English county of Norfolk.
This station is one of the possible sites protected in local plans in case it is needed to be restored as part of the Mid-Norfolk Railway's eventual plans to return to Fakenham. Any replacement station would be built on the throat of the original site, as sheltered housing has been built on the main station site. Other developments north of the former station make further extension of the Mid-Norfolk Railway towards Walsingham and Wells impracticable, but the 'Norfolk Orbital' scheme proposes reopening instead towards the North Norfolk line at Holt. The railway formation south of the station, as far as the three-arch viaduct over the River Wensum is now owned by the Norfolk Orbital Railway.
There was also a Fakenham West railway station on the Midland and Great Northern Joint Railway between King's Lynn and Great Yarmouth which closed in 1959.