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Norwich Victoria was a railway station in Norwich in Norfolk and the former terminus of the Great Eastern Main Line. There were at one time three railway stations in Norwich, the others being Norwich City and Norwich Thorpe. Currently, only the former Thorpe station, now known simply as "Norwich", remains in use. ==Opening== It was opened by the Eastern Union Railway (EUR) with regular passenger services commencing on 12 December 1849. The booking hall of the station had once housed a circus which formed an entertainment centre known as Ranelagh Gardens. The circus on the site had been operated by a Spanish sounding gentlemen named Pablo Fanque (in reality a Mr Darby from Norwich) and when the EUR purchased the site they then sold the various circus fittings. The station had two platforms arranged in a V-shape with the V at the south end and the rotunda (or pantheon) containing the ticket office at the north end. A small garden was located between the two platforms. According to the 1914 Ordnance Survey plan of the site there was a two-road engine shed (which measured 136 feet by 40 feet) and turntable to the west of the station and goods facilities to the east. The station was not well sited in that passengers wishing to continue a journey beyond Norwich would have to transfer to Thorpe station. On September 8 1851 a link opened from the EUR line to the Norwich to Ely line and most Ipswich services used Thorpe station with Victoria being left with 4-5 trains each day. In 1854 the EUR were taken over by the Eastern Counties Railway. However 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 1862, when the Great Eastern Railway (GER) was formed by the amalgamation. Thus Norwich Thorpe and Norwich Victoria became GER stations in 1862. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Norwich Victoria railway station」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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