Berney Arms railway station
Berney Arms 
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Berney Arms railway station in 2004
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| Location | |
| Place | Berney Arms |
| Local authority | Broadland |
| Grid reference | TG460053 |
| Operations | |
| Station code | BYA |
| Managed by | Abellio Greater Anglia |
| Number of platforms | 1 |
| DfT category | F2 |
| Live arrivals/departures, station information and onward connections from National Rail Enquiries |
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| Annual rail passenger usage* | |
| 2011/12 |
 1,436 |
| 2012/13 |
1,054 |
| 2013/14 |
 1,510 |
| 2014/15 |
1,396 |
| 2015/16 |
1,016 |
| History | |
| Original company |
Yarmouth and Norwich Railway Eastern Counties Railway |
| Pre-grouping | Great Eastern Railway |
| Post-grouping | London and North Eastern Railway |
| 1 May 1844 | Opened |
| National Rail – UK railway stations | |
| * Annual estimated passenger usage based on sales of tickets in stated financial year(s) which end or originate at Berney Arms from Office of Rail and Road statistics. Methodology may vary year on year. | |
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Berney Arms railway station is on the Wherry Lines in the east of England, serving the remote settlement of Berney Arms on the Halvergate Marshes in Norfolk. It is 15 miles 71 chains (25.6 km) down-line from Norwich and is on a loop between Reedham and Great Yarmouth. It is managed by Abellio Greater Anglia, which also operates all trains serving the station. The limited number of services timetabled to stop do so on request only.
Berney Arms is one of the most remote and least-used stations in the country. It is several miles from the nearest road and thus is accessible only by train, on foot, or by boat, as it is a relatively short walk from the River Yare, where private boats can moor. It was adopted in 2010 as part of the Station Adoption Scheme.
The Bill for the Yarmouth & Norwich Railway (Y&NR) received Royal Assent on 18 June 1842. Work started on the line in April 1843 and it and its stations were opened on 1 May 1844. Berney Arms opened with the line and is situated east of Reedham and west of Great Yarmouth (originally Yarmouth Vauxhall). The Y&NR was the first public railway line in Norfolk. A local landowner, Thomas Trench Berney, sold the land on the marshes to the railway company on the condition that Berney Arms station be built. A few years later, the railway stopped serving it, saying that there had been no agreement for trains to actually call at the station that they agreed to build. However, after lengthy legal proceedings, it was agreed to serve the station in perpetuity.
The Y&NR was the first public railway line in Norfolk. On 30 June 1845 a Bill authorising the amalgamation of the Y&NR with the Norwich & Brandon Railway came into effect and Berney Arms station became a Norfolk Railway asset.
The Eastern Counties Railway (ECR) and its rival the Eastern Union Railway (EUR) were both sizing up the NR to acquire and expand their networks. The ECR trumped the EUR by taking over the NR, including Berney Arms, effective 8 May 1848.
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