Walsingham railway station

Walsingham
The former Walsingham station, 2007
Location
Place	Walsingham
Area	North Norfolk, Norfolk
Coordinates	52°53′37″N 0°52′12″E / 52.89357°N 0.87010°E / 52.89357; 0.87010Coordinates: 52°53′37″N 0°52′12″E / 52.89357°N 0.87010°E / 52.89357; 0.87010
Grid reference	TF931368
Operations
Original company	Wells and Fakenham Railway
Pre-grouping	Great Eastern Railway
Post-grouping	London & North Eastern Railway Eastern Region of British Railways
Platforms	1
History
1857	Opened
1964	Closed to passengers
1967	Buildings reopened as a church
1982	New station opened nearby
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Walsingham was a railway station on the Wells and Fakenham Railway, later part of the Great Eastern Railway. It opened on 1 December 1857, and served the villages of Great Walsingham and Little Walsingham. It closed on 5 October 1964.^[1] The station buildings were purchased in 1967 by a group of members of the Russian Orthodox Church and developed into a small monastic community house, including St. Seraphim's Russian Orthodox church.

The resident religious community has plans to further develop the site, including a permanent dual exhibition which will both showcase the religious life, in particular the art of icon painting, and also provide a historical review of the site's railway heritage.^[2]

Since 1982, there has been a second station at Walsingham - the southern terminus of the narrow gauge Wells and Walsingham Light Railway. This station is sited slightly to the north of the original, the latter now having a car and coach park on the site of the tracks.

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