Corpusty Station to be renovated for use as events space and museum

A committee of volunteers at Corpusty and Saxthorpe Village Hall are working to make Corpusty station available for use by the local community as an events space, with the heritage and history of the building on display. 

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The station building (Image: Andy Bell)

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The platform will also be restored for the potential installation of benches and a woodland walk area will be incorporated behind the building. 

The site has been subjected to acts of vandalism and repairs to the windows of the building have been required.

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Corpusty railway station in 1957 photographed from the bridge by EDP reader Colin Spink. (Image: Newsquest Archive) Over the years, the station has been used for various purposes including as an art space by the local primary school and as a pop up café in aid of two local charities.

The village hall committee, which is responsible for the management of the building, has been hosting fundraising events and activities to fund the much-needed repairs.

So far, the group has hosted a car boot and breakfast once a month, a curry night, and has plans for a bingo evening. 

Corpusty Station, opened by the Eastern & Midlands Railway in 1883, was a stop between Melton Constable and Yarmouth Beach and saw both passenger and goods traffic, most of which was agricultural. 

The station was closed in 1959.

Andy Bell, from the hall group, said: "We have someone from the village who has been hunting down items that have been sold off from the old station site when it closed. 

"We are thinking about using it as an events and museum space."