Wymondham railway station
Wymondham 
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| Location | |
| Place | Wymondham |
| Local authority | South Norfolk |
| Grid reference | TG114009 |
| Operations | |
| Station code | WMD |
| Managed by | Abellio Greater Anglia |
| Number of platforms | 2 |
| DfT category | F1 |
| Live arrivals/departures, station information and onward connections from National Rail Enquiries |
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| Annual rail passenger usage* | |
| 2011/12 |
 0.157 million |
| 2012/13 |
0.168 million |
| 2013/14 |
0.178 million |
| 2014/15 |
0.182 million |
| 2015/16 |
 0.180 million |
| History | |
| Key dates | Opened 30 July 1845 |
| National Rail – UK railway stations | |
| * Annual estimated passenger usage based on sales of tickets in stated financial year(s) which end or originate at Wymondham from Office of Rail and Road statistics. Methodology may vary year on year. | |
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Wymondham railway station is on the Breckland Line in the east of England, serving the town of Wymondham, Norfolk. The line runs between Cambridge in the west and Norwich in the east.
The Bill for the Norwich & Brandon Railway (N&BR) received Royal Assent on 10 May 1844. Work started on the line in 1844 and the line and its stations were opened on 30 July 1845. Wymondham station opened with the line and was, when it opened, situated east of Spooner Row station and west of Spink's Lane station. The line ran from Ely to Trowse, in Norwich. The link into Norwich was delayed due to the need to build a bridge over the River Wensum that kept the river navigable. One month before the N&BR opened a Bill authorising the amalgamation of the Yarmouth & Norwich Railway with the N&BR came into effect and so Wymondham station became a Norfolk Railway asset.
In November 1845 Spink's Lane station was closed for good as the Norfolk Railway Board determined that two stations in one small Norfolk town was overkill. With the closure of Spink's Lane the next station east of Wymondham became Hethersett.
On 15 February 1847 Wymondham became a junction station as the Norfolk Railway opened a branch line to Dereham. The first station on the branch after Wymondham was Kimberley.
An Act of Parliament on 7 August 1862, when the Great Eastern Railway (GER) was formed by the amalgamation. Actually, Wymondham 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.[4]<CJ Allen - Great Eastern - page46>
19 years after the GER was formed the GER promoted a Bill to build a cut-off line from Forncett on the Ipswich-Norwich line to the Norwich-Ely line at Wymondham. Work started in 1880 and the line opened on 2 May 1881.
The difficult economic circumstances that existed after World War 1 led the Government to pass the Railways Act 1921 which led to the creation of the Big Four. The GER was absorbed into the London & North Eastern Railway (LNER). Wymondham became a LNER station on 1 January 1923. The line to Forncett closed in 1939
On 1 January 1948 Wymondham became a BR station.
The Dereham to Wymondham line closed on 6 October 1969.
In 5 January 1997 train services serving Wymondham were privatised with most services passing to Anglia Railways and services towards the West Midlands were taken over by Central Trains on 2 March 1997.
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