Trains to Wymondham - Station Details and further Information on Wymondham Train Services
Wymondham is a train station in the town of Wymondham in the English county of Norfolk. The station is served by local services operated by East Midlands Trains and National Express East Anglia on the Breckland Line 11 miles west of Norwich to Peterborough and Cambridge.
National Express East Anglia operate an hourly service eastbound to Norwich (12mins) and westbound to Cambridge (62mins). East Midlands Trains operate 4 daily eastbound services to Norwich and 2 daily westbound services to Ely, Peterborough and Liverpool Lime Street with a daily Cambridge service.
On Sundays, National Express East Anglia operate a predominantly hourly service to Cambridge and return to Norwich.
A Ticket Office was re-established by National Express East Anglia at Wymondham in 2005, 39 years after the station had become an unstaffed halt under British Railways. The Ticket Office is open on weekday mornings from 05.45 until 10.10hrs.
Wymondham Railway Station was named "Small Station of the Year" in the 2006 National Rail Awards. The rural stations restaffing initiative won the inaugural "Putting Passengers First Award" at the 2007 National Rail Awards. Wymondham was named Best Station' at the 'Anglia in Bloom' awards in 2008, and the Brief Encounter Restaurant and the Railway Ticket office were jointly awarded 1st place as 'Best Retail Outlet' at the 2008 'Community Rail Partnership' awards.
Wymondham station is also the junction for the Mid-Norfolk Railway, although currently their passenger trains, running 11 miles north to East Dereham, operate from the separate Wymondham Abbey station. The two stations are about a mile apart. Wymondham was also a junction for a line via Ashwellthorpe railway station.
Until April 2009 there was a Telegraph pole route still in operation between here and Brandon. This was removed gradually during the early part of 2009 and was the last section remaining in England and one of the last remaining in the UK. |