Woodbridge
The 11.54 Lowestoft-Ipswich DMU eases into Woodbridge on 30th June 1979. In the years ahead, the disused up platform facilities were removed, but happily the canopy was imaginatively renovated and preserved. The main station building eventually found use as a popular café, appropriately named 'The Whistle Stop', and by the 2020s Woodbridge passengers could travel in state of the art Stadler rolling stock. All a far cry from the station's prospects when the East Suffolk line was listed for closure in the Beeching report. There is always a price for such good fortune, however, and it is said that the late 1960s reprieve was at the cost of the Wymondham-Kings Lynn (via Dereham) line which Beeching did not list.
Location: Woodbridge
Original line: Woodbridge Extension (Eastern Union Railway)
Photographer: Mark Dufton
Contact photographer: Mark Dufton
Date: 30/06/1979
Image number: 77809
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