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A look at how the city's railway stations have changed through the years

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But perhaps none so drastic as the evolution of our railway stations.

Norwich Railway Station (Image: Denise Bradley) Since the 1800s, access to the city by train could be done at three stations.

In addition to the current one on Thorpe Road, there was also City Station, which opened in 1882 by the Lynn and Fakenham Railway.

Sixty years later, however, the station was bombed during the Baedecker Raids during the Second World War and later closed as part of the Beeching Cuts - a series of route closures and restructuring made to Britain's railways during the 1960s.

There is now a roundabout near Anglia Square, which links Barn Road to St Crispins, where the station used to be located.

There was also Victoria Station, which was at the top of St Stephen's........

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