Yaxham station was built by the Norfolk Railway Company and opened for goods trafic in December 1846. Yaxham opened to passengers in February 1847. Yaxham station closed to goods traffic in 1964  Then in June 1965 Yaxham became an unstaffed halt. The Yaxham signal box was closed and the track was singled. The station closed to passengers in October 1969. The line closed in 1989

Mid-Norfolk Railway trains do not stop at Yaxham to pick or set down passengers as the station is in private hands. The owner lets the railway use Yaxham signal box to keep warm and dry between trains.

On the same day the Saturday of this Gala the 23rd June 2012, Battle of Britain Class 4-6-2 Tangmere was on a mainline steam tour 'THE TITFIELD THUNDERBOLT' to the North Norfolk Railway at Holt. This was booked to go though Wymondham station non-stop at about 11:33am

GWR 0-6-PT no.9466 had left the Mid-Norfolk via its mainline conection at Wymondham about an hour be the charter and headed for Norwich light engine along the mainline.

'THE TITFIELD THUNDERBOLT' would them be Top and Tailed between Norwich and Shellingham because the train would have to reverse in Cromer station.

It was only around 1995 that The Mid-Norfolk Railway Preservation Trust started to restore this line between Dereham and Wymondham. It now has 17.5 miles of track (11.5 miles is in use) which when its is all in use, will be one of longer preserved railways in the UK. A lot of the other preserved railways had already had a twenty year start when they started.