Notes: The East Norfolk Railway obtained an Act of Parliament in 1872 to build a line from Norwich to Cromer which opened as far as North Walsham via Wroxham on 20th October 1874,

Initially it comprised a single track line from Norwich to North Walsham that was extended to Cromer on the north Norfolk coast in 1877. A branch from Wroxham to Aylsham, opened in 1880.

In 1882 the East Norfolk Railway was incorporated into the Great Eastern Railway who had operated the line from the its opening. In 1887 an extension to the line was opened, which had a loop down via the Norfolk & Suffolk Joint Railway to the newly opened Midland & Great Northern Railway's line to Cromer and onward to Sheringham giving connections to the Midlands via the new railway town of Melton Constable. The M & GN station was known as Cromer Beach to distinguish it from the Great Eastern station.

The Cromer Tunnel was built by the Norfolk and Suffolk Joint Railway to take their line under the Great Eastern's Cromer High to Norwich line; it is the only standard gauge railway tunnel in Norfolk.

Due to the late Victorian popularity of Cromer as a holiday resort sections of the line were upgraded to double track between 1896 – 1901. Initially the station was named Cromer but was renamed Cromer High on 27.9.1948.

With the run down of the railways after nationalisation branch lines in Norfolk were decimated, even before the Beeching era and although the Norwich - Sheringham Line survived, the Aylsham branch was an early casualty closing in 1952 and the short branch to Cromer High followed in 1954 being an obvious candidate for closure sited on the edge of an escarpment high above the time, a monument to the inability of the ENR to engineer a station nearer the town, while the M & GN's Cromer Beach was well sited close to the town centre.

The station closed to passengers on 10th September 1954 and to goods on 7th March 1960. The Sheringham line is still open and is known as the Bittern Line.