Reepham (Norfolk) was a railway station in Reepham,

Norfolk Norfolk ( ) is a Ceremonial counties of England, ceremonial county in England, located in East Anglia and officially part of the East of England region. It borders Lincolnshire and The Wash to the north-west, the North Sea to the north and eas ...

. It was opened in 1882 and closed to passengers in 1952; it finally shut to goods services in 1981.Subterranea Britannica: SB-Sites:Reepham Station
/ref> The tracks through Reepham remained in place until 1985, latterly serving a concrete factory in

Lenwade Lenwade is a village in the civil parish of Great Witchingham in the English county of Norfolk. Lenwade is located south-east of Fakenham and north-west of Norwich, at the confluence of the River Ainse and River Wensum. History Lenwade's n ...

. The trackbed is preserved as part of the

Marriott's Way The Marriott's Way is a footpath, cycle-path and bridleway in north Norfolk, England, between Norwich and Aylsham via Themelthorpe. It forms part of the National Cycle Network (NCN) (Route 1) and the red route of Norwich's Pedalways cycle ...

long-distance footpath between

Aylsham Aylsham ( or ) is a historic market town and civil parish on the River Bure in north Norfolk, England, nearly north of Norwich. The river rises near Melton Constable, upstream from Aylsham and continues to Great Yarmouth and the North Sea ...

and

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Future operations

A speculative plan to create a

heritage railway A heritage railway or heritage railroad (U.S. usage) is a railway operated as living history to re-create or preserve railway scenes of the past. Heritage railways are often old railway lines preserved in a state depicting a period (or periods) ...

between Reepham station and Whitwell station has been proposed by the owner of the latter station, which is being developed as a railway centre. This would include relaying the Themelthorpe Curve, built to link the former

Great Eastern Railway The Great Eastern Railway (GER) was a pre-grouping British railway company, whose main line linked London Liverpool Street to Norwich and which had other lines through East Anglia. The company was grouped into the London and North Eastern R ...

and

Midland and Great Northern Joint Railway The Midland and Great Northern Joint Railway (M&GNJR) was a railway network in England, in the area connecting southern Lincolnshire, the Isle of Ely and north Norfolk. It developed from several local independent concerns and was incorporated i ...

routes; it was formerly the tightest radius curve on the

British Rail British Railways (BR), which from 1965 traded as British Rail, was a state-owned company that operated most rail transport in Great Britain from 1948 to 1997. Originally a trading brand of the Railway Executive of the British Transport Comm ...

network.

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Disused railway stations in Norfolk Former Great Eastern Railway stations Railway stations in Great Britain opened in 1882 Railway stations in Great Britain closed in 1952 Reepham, Norfolk {{EastEngland-railstation-stub