Norwich railway station

Norwich
National Rail
Norwich railway station in June 2008
General information
LocationNorwich, City of Norwich
England
Coordinates52°37′37″N 1°18′23″E / 52.6269°N 1.3065°E / 52.6269; 1.3065
Grid referenceTG239083
Managed byGreater Anglia
Platforms6
Other information
Station codeNRW
ClassificationDfT category B
History
Original companyGreat Eastern Railway
Post-groupingLondon & North Eastern Railway
Key dates
1 May 1844Opened as Norwich
12 December 1849Renamed Norwich Thorpe
3 May 1886Re-sited
5 May 1969Renamed Norwich
Passengers
2018/19Increase 4.251 million
2019/20Decrease 4.042 million
 Interchange  0.427 million
2020/21Decrease 0.968 million
 Interchange Decrease 0.113 million
2021/22Increase 3.214 million
 Interchange Increase 0.358 million
2022/23Increase 3.964 million
 Interchange Increase 0.437 million
Notes
Passenger statistics from the Office of Rail and Road
Norwich Thorpe in 1851, before its rebuilding in 1886.
LNER Thompson B1 4-6-0 in January 1958

Norwich railway station (formerly Norwich Thorpe) is the northern terminus of the Great Eastern Main Line in the East of England, serving the cathedral city of Norwich, Norfolk. It is 114 miles 77 chains (185.0 km) down the main line (measured via Ipswich) from London Liverpool Street, the western terminus.[1]

It is also the terminus of numerous secondary lines: the Breckland Line to Cambridge; the Bittern Line to Sheringham; and the Wherry Lines to Great Yarmouth and Lowestoft.

The station is currently managed by Greater Anglia, which also operates the majority of the trains that serve the station. East Midlands Railway operates the services to Liverpool Lime Street via Nottingham, Sheffield and Manchester Piccadilly.

  1. ^ Padgett, David (October 2016) [1988]. Brailsford, Martyn (ed.). Railway Track Diagrams 2: Eastern (4th ed.). Frome: Trackmaps. map 7A. ISBN 978-0-9549866-8-1.

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