Worstead Station

Worstead is the village in Norfolk that gave its name in the Middle Ages to the cloth.

The railways came in the shape of the East Norfolk Railway from Norwich to North Walsham in 1874 and then Cromer in 1877. The East Norfolk was taken over by the Great Eastern, which in the Edwardian era ran non-stop expresses to North Walsham round the Wensum Curve in Norwich to bypass Norwich Thorpe Station. There they split into three with one section going to Cromer High on the GER, one to Sheringham on the M&GN and one to Mundesley on the Norfolk and Suffolk Joint Railway (a joint enterprise of the GER and the M&GN!).

The line survived Beeching but was singled and turned into a 'basic railway' but there is a enough remaining to get a good feel for a rural railway station of the Edwardian era. The signal box survives in someone's garden, the station building and canopy and there are remains of the goods yard.

All one has to do is to imagine the Norfolk Coast Express roaring through with Edwardian holiday makers on board.