Wroxham railway station
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Wroxham | |||||
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 2015, with a service train on platform 1 and a special train (with visiting locomotive) at the former island platform (now demolished). | |||||
| General information | |||||
| Location | Wroxham / Hoveton, Broadland, Norfolk England | ||||
| Coordinates | 52°43′00″N 1°24′30″E / 52.7168°N 1.4084°E | ||||
| System | Station on heritage railway | ||||
| Managed by | BVR | ||||
| Platforms | 2 | ||||
| Key dates | |||||
| 10 July 1990 | Opened | ||||
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Wroxham railway station is located near the villages of Wroxham and Hoveton in Norfolk, and is the southern terminus of the Bure Valley Railway, a minimum gauge operation which reuses some of the trackbed of a former standard gauge branch line. The station is close to Hoveton & Wroxham railway station on the standard gauge National Rail network, and the two are connected by a footpath.
The station opened on 10 July 1990, with two platforms. In 2000 a long siding was installed, forming a third operational platform, but without locomotive release facilities.
Until December 2015 the station had three platforms. The main station buildings are located on platform 1. Until reordering, platforms 2 and 3 were the two sides of an island platform installation, although both were used only infrequently, with the regular timetable usually seeing no more than one service train in the station. The platform 2 line was also used as a locomotive release road and run-round loop. The platform 3 line was used for stabling of engineering trains, when engineers were working locally. The platform 1 and 2 lines were both connected to a turntable, which formed the headshunt and turning facility for the station.
