🏠 Indoor & outdoorEducational
What’s there
- Café on site
- Limited parking
Designated parking at the front of Dereham station; may be limited during special events.
Only facilities we’ve confirmed are listed — anything missing here we simply haven’t checked, rather than know to be absent.
The Mid-Norfolk Railway is an 11-mile standard-gauge heritage line running through the countryside of central Norfolk, between the restored Victorian station at Dereham and Wymondham Abbey. Trains are hauled by steam and diesel locomotives, and a ride gives children a close look at old carriages and engines. The Dereham station has a period ticket office, a tearoom, a gift shop and a small museum of railway memorabilia. Special events run through the year, including themed transport days, a model railway exhibition and seasonal Christmas trains. The line is looked after by a volunteer preservation trust, which continues to restore the route northwards towards County School.
Season runs March to October; Polar Express trains November and December; Dereham station operates all year except January per the operator's site.
Stuff to take with you
The things people wish they’d packed for a day out like this one.
Refillable water bottleMost places will fill it for free.
Snacks that survive a rucksackCheaper than the café, and buys you twenty minutes.
Wet wipes
Small first aid kitPlasters solve more days out than anything else here.
Travel pillow- Children's paracetamol sachetsThe one thing a farm shop never sells.
AntihistamineStings and pollen, both far from a pharmacy.- Rucksack rain cover
Flask of tea- Travel sickness bands
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Photos: 維基小霸王, CC BY-SA 4.0 · Renée Kools, CC BY 4.0 · Takahiro Yamagiwa, CC BY 2.0
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