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Fakenham East railway station

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has been built on the main station site. Other developments north of the former station make further extension impractical; instead the 'Norfolk Orbital' scheme proposes reopening towards the North Norfolk line at Holt and the Mid-Norfolk line at County School. The railway formation south of the
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No. 7486 was hauling a passenger train when it overran a signal and collided with another passenger train, hauled by fellow
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This station is one of the possible sites protected in local plans, if needed as part of the
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The Site today complete with original, but relocated, crossing post to the right
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Norfolk Orbital Railway project gets closer to reviving old link to Fakenham
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No. 7457. In total, one person was killed and 15 others were injured.
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On 27 May 1931, a head-on collision took place at the station.
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on 27 September 1948; it was closed on 5 October 1964.
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Fakenham
North Norfolk
Grid reference
TF927297
Norfolk Railway
Great Eastern Railway
London & North Eastern Railway
Eastern Region of British Railways

market town
Fakenham
English
Norfolk
Norfolk Railway
British Railways
Norfolk Orbital Railway
Fakenham
sheltered housing
River Wensum
Norfolk Orbital Railway
Fakenham West railway station
Midland and Great Northern Joint Railway
King's Lynn
Great Yarmouth
Walsingham
Wells and Fakenham Railway
Walsingham
British Rail
Eastern Region

Wymondham to Wells via East Dereham

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