'THETFORD
- STATION
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As well being the
presumed home of Boudicca, warrior queen of the Iceni - a tribe which
stretched all the way down to Ipswich, the Saxon capital of East
Anglia, the site of a Cluniac Priory in the 12th century, birthplace of
the revolutionary thinker Tom Paine, home of Duleep Singh - the last
Hindu Maharajah of the Punjab, and in the 1800s the place where Charles
Burrell set up his famous engineering works, as well as all this
Thetford has a railway station with its name and date incised in
a curved segment of brickwork above the door.
Thetford is on the Cambridge to Norwich line and once served as the terminus for branch lines to Swaffham (closed by Dr Beeching in 1964) and to Bury St Edmunds (closed 1953) which also called at the town's other station Thetford Bridge.
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Thetford is on the Cambridge to Norwich line and once served as the terminus for branch lines to Swaffham (closed by Dr Beeching in 1964) and to Bury St Edmunds (closed 1953) which also called at the town's other station Thetford Bridge.
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