Brundall railway station
Brundall 
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Platform 1 (westbound)
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| Location | |
| Place | Brundall |
| Local authority | Broadland |
| Grid reference | TG328079 |
| Operations | |
| Station code | BDA |
| Managed by | Abellio Greater Anglia |
| Number of platforms | 2 |
| 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 |
 88,984 |
| – Interchange |
590 |
| 2012/13 |
 94,554 |
| – Interchange |
742 |
| 2013/14 |
92,892 |
| – Interchange |
435 |
| 2014/15 |
98,472 |
| – Interchange |
566 |
| 2015/16 |
104,734 |
| – Interchange |
561 |
| History | |
| Original company | Yarmouth and Norwich Railway |
| Pre-grouping | Great Eastern Railway |
| Post-grouping | LNER |
| 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 Brundall from Office of Rail and Road statistics. Methodology may vary year on year. | |
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Brundall railway station is on the Wherry Lines in the east of England, serving the village of Brundall, Norfolk. It is 4 miles 53 chains (7.5 km) down the line from Norwich on the route to Great Yarmouth and Lowestoft. Its three-letter station code is BDA.
The station was opened in 1844. Today it is managed by Abellio Greater Anglia.
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 the line and its stations were opened on 1 May 1844. Brundall Station opened with the line and was situated east of Norwich station and west of Buckenham station. 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 Brundall station became a Norfolk Railway asset.
On 15 December 1845 a swing bridge over the River Wensum opened and this allowed freight trains going to and from Yarmouth via Brundall to bypass Norwich. The Eastern Counties Railway (ECR) and its rival the Eastern Union Railway (EUR) were both sizing up the Norfolk Railway to acquire and expand their railway empire. The ECR trumped the EUR by taking over the Norfolk Railway, including Brundall Station on 8 May 1848.
By the 1860s the railways in East Anglia were in financial trouble, and most were leased to the Eastern Counties Railway, which wished to amalgamate formally but could not obtain government agreement for this until an Act of Parliament on 7 August 1862, when the Great Eastern Railway (GER) was formed by the amalgamation. Brundall became a GER station on 1 July 1862 when the GER took over the ECR and the EUR before the Bill received the Royal Assent.
In the 1870s the GER started to expand its network east of Norwich. The GER obtained powers to build a line to Cromer leaving the Yarmouth to Norwich line at Whitlingham. The opening of Whitlingham station and the new line on 20 October 1874 meant that Brundall was now separated from Norwich Thorpe by the new station.
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