Disused Stations:Wendling Station

A DMU stops at Wendling station on 3 September 1968. The line closed four days later. The platform is overgrown and, although not shown in the picture, the eastbound platform has lost its rails and the signal box closed. The building behind the platform is probably the goods lock-up.

Photo from John Mann collection

The Walmington on Sea Home Guard platoon are seen standing on the up platform at Wendling station during filming of Battle School in June 1969. The opening shot of the episode was taken from The Titfield Thunderbolt, a film made some 16 years previously. Stock footage was required as the location being used for their arrival could no longer be reached by train. The train pulls into the station on the left track of a 2-track station. The next scene depicts the Home Guard standing on the right platform of a single track line with the smoke of the train pulling away on the right hand side as seen here.
Wendling station is seen with rusty tracks, indicating that a train hasn't run on them for some time. It's especially noticeable when the platoon marches down the ramp and off the platform.

Sergeant Wilson (left) played by John Le Mesurier and Captain Mainwaring played by Arthur Lowe walk along the up platform at Wendling.

Captain Mainwaring is seen dangling from the road bridge in The Day the Balloon Went Up.

Wendling station looking west from the road bridge in October 1975. The station master's house was never used as a private residence after closure as the station was earmarked for a new road and was demolished a few months after this photo was taken.
Photo by David Burrows from his Flickr photostream

Looking west from the road bridge at the down platform at Wendling station in October 1975. The house seen on the left can also bee seen on the 1982 photo of the station site after the East Dereham
bypass opened.
Photo by David Burrows from his Flickr photostream

Looking east at Wendling station from the barrow crossing at the west end of the station
in October 1975.
Photo by David Burrows from his Flickr photostream

Wendling down platform waiting room seen from the up platform in October 1975. The waiting room, which was built in 1881 comprised general and ladies' waiting rooms with a separate door into each.

Photo by David Burrows from his Flickr photostream

Wendling station looking east from the up platform in October 1975. The trackbed is becoming heavily overgrown obscuring much of the down platform. The supports for the running-in board are protruding through the bushes.
Photo by David Burrows from his Flickr photostream

Wendling station looking east from the down platform in October 1975. Apart from the up platform canopy which has been removed, the station remained largely intact until it was demolished, probably early the following year.
Photo Flickr photostream

Looking west at the site of Wendling station from the A47 bridge in July 1982. The bank on the left and the houses occupy the site of the goods yard.
Photo by John Mann

The site of the station looking west from the concrete over bridge that spans the A47 road which runs along the line of the railway at Wendling in September 2017. The up platform was on the left inside the tree line, the down platform approximately along the middle of the carriageway.
Photo by Glen Kilday

September 1968

September 2017

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Station Name: WENDLING