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View across The Turnpike (B1113) towards the former Ashwellthorpe railway station as it looks today: the trees seen at right denote the course of the railway line and the stationmaster's house > http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1412237 can be seen in the background. The red-brick cottages used to be the porters' cottages. All former railway buildings have since been converted into private dwellings.

The bridge abutments can still be seen and are holding back the embankment.

The stationmaster's house can be seen in the background. Ashwellthorpe station was opened by the GER (Great Eastern Railway), serving as a cut-off line between Forncett and Wymondham. It later became part of the London and North Eastern Railway. The station was closed to passenger traffic in 1939 and to freight in 1951. The originally single-track line was used for main line diversion trains during the floods of 1912 and it was doubled for military purposes during WWI. The two porters' cottages, the station master's house and the station building including a very short section of the former platform are still standing but have since been converted into private dwellings. An industrial site adjoins in the west > http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1412309.

Ashwellthorpe station was opened by the GER (Great Eastern Railway), serving as a cut-off line between Forncett and Wymondham. It later became part of the London and North Eastern Railway. The station was closed to passenger traffic in 1939 and to freight in 1951. The originally single-track line was used for main line diversion trains during the floods of 1912 and it was doubled for military purposes during WWI. The two porters' cottages, the station master's house and the station building including a very short section of the former platform are still standing but have since been converted into private dwellings. An industrial site adjoins in the west > http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1412309.

A view towards the former Ashwellthorpe railway station as it looks today, the trees seen at right denote the course of the railway line and the stationmaster's house > http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1412237 can be seen in the background.

The area that used to be bridged by the Forncet to Wymondham line. This was a 6.5 mile avoiding line. There were freights from Lowestoft that went down to Beccles, across the Waveney Valley line up to Forncet to Wymondham then up to Wells via the Mid Norfolk Railway. It closed in 1951 and the trackbed is a strategic freight route.

A quick detour to photograph the station, I had visited in 2007 but this was before I had discovered Geograph and didn't bring a camera. This is the station master's house. The station being on the Linking line between Wymondham and Forncet (6.5 miles long). This was the only intermediate station on the line, at first it was a single line but was doubled in WW1. Goods traffic was withdrawn in 1951. The trackbed is in poor condition but is now unable to be developed because it is being a strategic freight route. Even the bridges are repaired by the BR land authority. It is now a private house.

The brick abutment beside the road is all that remains of a dismantled railway bridge serving a cut-off line between Forncett and Wymondham. Ashwellthorpe railway station and buildings > http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1412237 used to be situated just to the west of the bridge.

The brick abutment is all that remains of a dismantled railway bridge serving a cut-off line between Forncett and Wymondham. Ashwellthorpe railway station and buildings > http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1412237 used to be situated just to the west of the bridge.

Ashwellthorpe station was opened by the GER (Great Eastern Railway), serving as a cut-off line between Forncett and Wymondham. It later became part of the London and North Eastern Railway. The station was closed to passenger traffic in 1939 and to freight in 1951. The originally single-track line was used for main line diversion trains during the floods of 1912 and it was doubled for military purposes during WWI. The two porters' cottages, the station master's house and the station building including a very short section of the former platform are still standing but have since been converted into private dwellings. An industrial site adjoins in the west > http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1412309.