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Narborough and Pentney railway station

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Place
  
Narborough

Pre-grouping
  
Great Eastern Railway

Platforms in use
  
2

Area
  
Norfolk

27 October 1846
  
Opened as Narborough

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Post-grouping
  
London and North Eastern Railway Eastern Region of British Railways

1 July 1923
  
Renamed Narborough and Pentney

Similar
  
Starston railway station, Ellingham railway station, Docking railway station, Fransham railway station, Swainsthorpe railway station

Narborough and Pentney station was in Norfolk, serving the villages of Narborough and Pentney.

History

It was on the line between King's Lynn and Swaffham opening with the line on 27 October 1846 and temporarily the terminus of the branch from Lynn. Nine months after Narborough station opened, its owner, the Lynn & Dereham Railway, was taken over by the East Anglian Railway (EAR). The line to Swaffham was opened 19 days after the EAR took over, on 10 August 1847. It was closed in 1968.

References

Narborough and Pentney railway station Wikipedia