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Wolferton was a railway station on the Lynn and Hunstanton Railway line which opened in 1862 to serve the village of Wolferton in Norfolk, England. The station was also well known as the nearest station to Sandringham House , and royal trains brought the royal family to and from their estate until the station's closure in 1969.
Wolferton is best known as the location of Wolferton railway station. The station was opened in 1862 after Queen Victoria had purchased the site of Sandringham House as a Norfolk retreat. The station contained a set of elegant reception rooms, where the several generations of the royal family and their visitors would wait for transportation to ...
This is a list of closed railway stations in Norfolk, England. ... Wolferton: 3 October 1862 [94] 5 May 1969 [94] Great Eastern: Wortwell: Wortwell: 1 December 1855 [61]
The Wolverton [Wolferton] station is on the estate of the Prince of Wales (through which the line runs for nearly three miles), and is to be enlarged at the expense and for the accommodation of his Royal Highness. The Hunstanton terminus is near the verge of the cliffs. The line is worked by the Great Eastern Railway Company. [6] Wolferton ...
Wolferton Station, now closed – it was used by the royal family and their guests to reach Sandringham House for over 100 years. Guests for Sandringham house parties generally arrived at Wolferton railway station, 2.5 miles from the house, travelling in royal trains that ran from St Pancras Station to King's Lynn and then on to Wolferton.
Wolferton Station. Wolferton station was built to serve the Royal Family’s Sandringham estate and included a suite of Tudor-style royal reception and retiring rooms as well as a spacious carriage dock and a small gasworks, which lit the entire station. [9] He became an associate in 1881 and a fellow in 1890 of the Royal Institute of British ...
Old Wolverton railway works with Stephenson bridge, adjoins and crosses the Grand Union Canal. The 1833 Act of Parliament approving the London and Birmingham Railway included a clause that specified that a railway works be built around the mid-point, as it was considered scientifically unsafe at the time for railway locomotives to move more than 50 miles (80 km) without further inspection.
Two B2s were kept at Cambridge for hauling the Royal Train in East Anglia, [4] [5] predominantly to and from Wolferton which was the nearest to Sandringham House, these being renamed Royal Sovereign and 61617 Ford Castle as the reserve.