A grainy photo from my archives of a much changed scene as a reasonably-sized crowd of passengers alight from a Wickford to Southminster service at its penultimate stop at Burnham-on-Crouch, Essex, in June 1972. The train will head away from the camera when it departs. Even then, the station had been reduced to just one bi-directional platform with the removal of the passing loop. The branch has since been electrified (see my photo image no. 67456).
Location: Burnham-on-Crouch
Original line: ^New Essex^ Branch, Wickford to Southminster (Great Eastern Railway)
Photographer: David Bosher
Contact photographer: David Bosher
Photosets: Crouch Valley Line,Essex, 1972-2014
Date: 06/1972
Image number: 79807