Present and Future
Melton Constable is today a rather smaller village with around 500 inhabitants. The station was demolished in 1971, to be replaced by a telephone exchange. Two of the ornamental spandrels that held up the station roof are incorporated into the bus shelter on the B1354 Fakenham Road. The land of the old railway works and sidings is now an industrial estate, but a number of the old buildings have been retained. A water tower still exists above the factory area and still bears the traces of repaired shrapnel holes sustained during a Second World War air raid.
The North Norfolk Railway has long-term plans to restore the line from its own Holt station to Melton Constable, (Extending to Melton Constable would require installing a level crossing and alongside above the new-built road built about long after closure).
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