Norwich station, formerly Norwich Thorpe, is the northern end of the Great Eastern Main Line, 114 miles (185 kilometers) from London Liverpool Street. The first station opened on 1 May 1844. The Great Eastern Railway opened the present station, to the north of the original, on 3 May 1886. J. Wilson designed it, with W. N. Ashbee, the company's engineer and architect. Youngs and Son of Norwich built it for 60,000 pounds.
The design has a central clock tower with a portico, flanked by two-story wings. It has a high-ceilinged concourse and an ironwork roof, and it originally had five platforms. The station was bombed in June 1940 and April 1942. A modern booking hall was built in 1955.
It has six platforms and served 4.56 million passengers in 2024 and 2025. It won Large Station of the Year at the 2020 National Rail Awards.
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