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604: 685:(FONCS) has been set up to preserve what is left of the station and surrounding buildings. Current work is focused on the platform area. The Platform 1 wall has been discovered and the bay area has been cleared of undergrowth. The hope for the future is to uncover all the railway related parts of the area and turn it into a memorial garden. They also documented all those who served at the station. Interpretation boards will be erected, some including old photographs of the site. It is hoped that M&GN benches will accompany these. 374: 313: 274: 37: 301: 362: 294: 548: 355: 262: 526: 504: 482: 460: 416: 394: 333: 438: 225: 650:
clipped the tower of St Philips Church and then was deliberately steered to crash into the station's sidings and coal yards to avoid the surrounding houses. The pilot and crew were all killed.
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The station was closed to passengers on 2 March 1959 along with most of the Midland & Great Northern system, although the station remained in use for goods traffic until 1969.
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of 1942 when the main building was largely destroyed. Thereafter, the station operated from "temporary" buildings constructed on the site. Later in the war, in 1944, a
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The Directory of Railway Stations: details every public and private passenger station, halt, platform and stopping place, past and present
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The old Norwich City station stood where a roundabout is situated on the Inner link road
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and through-carriages to a range of destinations including
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Former Midland and Great Northern Joint Railway stations
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Friends of Norwich City Station (FONCS) Flickr Group
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Norwich
Norwich
52°38′04″N 1°17′16″E / 52.63445°N 1.28768°E / 52.63445; 1.28768
Lynn and Fakenham Railway
Midland and Great Northern Joint Railway
Eastern Region of British Railways
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Cromer
King's Lynn
Melton Constable
North Walsham
Hindolvestone
Guestwick
Whitwell & Reepham
Lenwade
Attlebridge
Drayton
Hellesdon
Norwich City
Norwich
Norfolk

Lynn and Fakenham Railway
Midland and Great Northern Joint Railway
Melton Constable
Cromer

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