Cantley
Cantley station looking west
General information
Location	Cantley, Broadland England
Grid reference	TG381036
Managed by	Greater Anglia
Platforms	2
Other information
Station code	CNY
Classification	DfT category F2
History
Original company	Yarmouth and Norwich Railway[1] Norfolk Railway Eastern Counties Railway
Pre-grouping	Great Eastern Railway
Post-grouping	London and North Eastern Railway
Key dates
1 May 1844	Opened[1]
September 1847	Closed (NR)
January 1851	Reopened (ECR)
Passengers
2018/19	20,590
2019/20	17,048
2020/21	7,004
2021/22	14,776
2022/23	15,740
Notes
Passenger statistics from the Office of Rail and Road

Cantley railway station is on the Wherry Lines in the East of England, serving the village of Cantley, Norfolk. It is 10 miles (16 km) down the line from Norwich on the routes to Lowestoft and Great Yarmouth and is situated between Buckenham and Reedham. Its three-letter station code is CNY.

History

The Bill for the Yarmouth & Norwich Railway (Y&NR), the first public railway line in Norfolk, received Royal Assent on 18 June 1842. Work started on the line in April 1843 and it opened on 1 May 1844. In June 1845 the Y&NR was amalgamated with the Norwich & Brandon Railway and Cantley station became a Norfolk Railway asset.^[1][2]

In 1847 the station was closed due to lack of traffic. The Eastern Counties Railway (ECR) took over the Norfolk Railway in May 1848 and the station reopened in 1851. In August 1862 all railways in East Anglia were consolidated to form the Great Eastern Railway (GER).^[3] The Railways Act 1921 led to the creation of the Big Four companies and the GER amalgamated with several companies to form the London and North Eastern Railway (LNER). Cantley became an LNER station on 1 January 1923. Upon nationalisation in 1947 the station became part of the Eastern Region of British Railways

In 1997 the privatisation of British Rail saw the station and its services were transferred to Anglia Railways, which operated it until 2004 when National Express East Anglia won the replacement franchise. In 2012 Abellio Greater Anglia won the franchise.

Services

As of the December 2022 timetable the typical weekday service at Cantley is four trains to call at the station hourly during peak and evening services and two-hourly during the day time off-peak. Most trains serve the Lowestoft to Norwich line. The service frequency of trains using the Berney Arms branch to run from Great Yarmouth to Norwich is usually two per day in both directions but this can very depending on the time of the year. Saturday services run with a similar frequency.

Sundays during the spring sees eight trains a day in both directions between Norwich and Great Yarmouth via Reedham, every two hours throughout the day until the late evening.^[4]