Fakenham East railway station

Fakenham East
The Site today complete with original, but relocated, crossing post to the right
General information
Location	Fakenham, North Norfolk England
Grid reference	TF927297
Platforms	1
Other information
Status	Disused
History
Original company	Norfolk Railway
Pre-grouping	Great Eastern Railway
Post-grouping	London & North Eastern Railway Eastern Region of British Railways
Key dates
20 March 1849 (1849-03-20)	Opened as Fakenham
27 September 1948	Renamed Fakenham East
5 October 1964	Closed
1 January 1980	closed for freight traffic

Fakenham East railway station was a railway station in the market town of Fakenham in the English county of Norfolk.

The station was opened by the Norfolk Railway on 20 March 1849 and was originally named Fakenham. Following nationalisation, it was renamed Fakenham East by British Railways on 27 September 1948; it was closed on 5 October 1964.^[1]

This station is one of the possible sites protected in local plans, if needed as part of the Norfolk Orbital Railway's long-term plans to return trains to Fakenham. Any replacement station would be built on the throat of the original site, as sheltered housing 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 station, as far as the three-arch viaduct over the River Wensum, is now owned by the Norfolk Orbital Railway.^[2][3]

There was also a Fakenham West railway station, on the Midland and Great Northern Joint Railway between King's Lynn and Great Yarmouth, which closed in 1959.