Thorpeness
Passenger services on the Aldeburgh branch commenced in 1859 but the intermediate station at Thorpeness didn't open until 1914. The excellent Disused Stations website shows old Great Eastern coach bodies being used as station buildings Thorpeness link. These were probably intended to be temporary structures but in fact lasted until the line closed in 1966. At first glance there doesn't appear to be any infrastructure left at the station site other than a large overgrown mound where the platform was. However, searching through the undergrowth I found these concrete beams, which presumably supported those old coaches for the fifty years they were in use.
Location: Thorpeness (former)
Original line: Leiston and Aldeburgh Branch (East Suffolk Railway)
Photographer: Mark Bartlett
Contact photographer: Mark Bartlett
Date: 29/07/2019
Image number: 70446
