Cantley Station

Cantley railway station is on the Wherry Lines in the east of England, serving the village of Cantley, Norfolk. It is 8mi down the line from on the route to and is situated between and. Its three-letter station code is CNY. HistoryThe 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. The Y& NR was the first public railway line in Norfolk and was situated east of Buckenham Station and west of Reedham Station. On 30 June 1845 a Bill authorising the amalgamation of the Y& NR with the Norwich & Brandon Railway came into effect and Cantley station became a Norfolk Railway asset. 2 years after the Norfolk Railway took over the company decided that Cantley Station lacked custom which resulted in its closure. During the four years that the station was closed the NR was taken over by the Eastern Counties Railway (ECR). In January 1851, the ECR decided to reopen Cantley Station and it has remained open ever since. 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. Actually, Cantley 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. & #60;CJ Allen - Great Eastern - page46& #62;

Cantley railway station is on the Wherry Lines in the east of England, serving the village of Cantley, Norfolk. It is 8mi down the line from on the route to and is situated between and. Its three-letter station code is CNY. HistoryThe 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. The Y& NR was the first public railway line in Norfolk and was situated east of Buckenham Station and west of Reedham Station. On 30 June 1845 a Bill authorising the amalgamation of the Y& NR with the Norwich & Brandon Railway came into effect and Cantley station became a Norfolk Railway asset. 2 years after the Norfolk Railway took over the company decided that Cantley Station lacked custom which resulted in its closure. During the four years that the station was closed the NR was taken over by the Eastern Counties Railway (ECR). In January 1851, the ECR decided to reopen Cantley Station and it has remained open ever since. 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. Actually, Cantley 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. & #60;CJ Allen - Great Eastern - page46& #62;