Hethersett railway station

Hethersett was a railway station near Hethersett, Norfolk.HistoryThe 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. Hethersett station opened with the line and was situated east of Spink's Lane station and west of Trowse 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 Hethersett station became a Norfolk Railway asset.Spink's Lane was closed in November 1845, so the next station west of Hethersett was Wymondham.The NR closed Hethersett station in September 1847.Five years later and four years after the Eastern Counties Railway (ECR) took over the NR the new owners reopened Hethersett Station.A decade after Hethersett reopened, the railways in East Anglia were in financial trouble, and most were leased to the ECR, 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. Hethersett became a GER station on 1 July 1862 when the GER took over the ECR.The GER amalgamated with other railways to form the London & North Eastern Railway (LNER) on 1 January 1923, so Hethersett became a LNER station. On 1 January 1948 Hethersett became a BR station.