Norchard railway station

Norchard
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Location
Place	Norchard
Area	Forest of Dean
Grid reference	SO628043
Operations
Original company	Severn and Wye Railway
Managed by	Dean Forest Railway
Platforms	3
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A 1911 Railway Clearing House map of railways in the vicinity of Parkend

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Station master's office - Low Level Platform 1

Norchard is a railway station on the Dean Forest Railway, near Lydney in the Forest of Dean, Gloucestershire.

Norchard is the main station of the Dean Forest Railway. Complete with sidings and a shed, it is the engineering base of the railway. Also to be found at this station is the Plate-Layers Buffet, the gift shop, museum, toilets, the main ticket office and a large free car park. Around Norchard there are many footpaths for walks into the forest, which are very good for photographing and filming the trains.

To get from the shop and ticket office, passengers must cross the line using the level crossing to the platforms. The station has three platforms in total. Low Level has two platforms; Platform 1 is for trains to Lydney Junction and Platform 2 has the Plate-layers Buffet and the 9681 shop which are in coaches. Norchard High Level has just one platform (Platform 3), but it serves trains from both Lydney Junction and Parkend, making it the main platform.

Services

Preceding station	Disused railways			Following station
Lydney Town Line and station open		Severn and Wye Railway (Later MR and GWR)		Whitecroft Line and station open
	Heritage railways
	Norchard High Level
Lydney Town		Dean Forest Railway		Whitecroft
	Norchard Low Level
Lydney Town		Dean Forest Railway		Terminus

See also

• Dean Forest Railway