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Station Cottage is the former ticket office and waiting rooms built by the Great Eastern Railway in 1881, and converted into self-catering holiday accommodation in 1997.
The railway cottage is situated on the Acle Railway Station which is midway between Norwich and Great Yarmouth, on a rural branch line running 15 trains a day in both directions.
The line was opened in 1883 as a single-track relief line running from Brundall to Breydon Junction, with intermediate stations at Lingwood and Acle.
Acle has a passing loop and a signal box that is manually operated by the block telegraph system using semaphore arm signals and is still illuminated by oil lamps!
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