Holt railway station

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Holt railway station was a station in Norfolk, England. It was opened in 1887. It was part of the Midland and Great Northern Joint Railway network, which spread over much of East Anglia. Trains ran northwards from Melton Constable and through Holt to Sheringham or Cromer. It was connected to Norwich, the county capital, at Norwich City railway station. There were plans to construct a branch line from Holt to Blakeney, but they never came to fruition.

When most of the Norfolk railway lines were closed in 1959, the branch on which Holt stood managed to evade closure for a few more years until 1964. The following year, the North Norfolk Railway was organised, which restored most of the line between Sheringham and Holt.^[1] Holt station itself was not on this heritage line, as the railway stopped at a new terminus on the edge of town, through there are proposals to extend back into the centre of town once more.^[2]

There is also a larger scheme afoot, the proposed Norfolk Orbital Railway which could see Holt with a regular railway service again. It would link together Sheringham and Wymondham using the existing lines of the North Norfolk Railway and the Mid Norfolk Railway as laying some fresh connecting track on old trackbeds.

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• List of closed railway stations in Norfolk
• Holt railway station (North Norfolk Railway)

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