Ryston
A Cravens DMU cautiously crosses the A10 near the former Ryston station (behind camera) on 29th March 1980. The Fakenham and District Railway Society's 'West Norfolk Freight Lines Railtour' had just visited the former Abbey and West Dereham station, reversed and was heading back to Denver junction, from where it would go on to explore the lines around Kings Lynn. This line was the remaining section of the Stoke Ferry branch and was then in use for traffic originating from the Wissington sugar refinery, which had its own private railway. Both lines survived for another two years before complete closure.
Location: Ryston (former)
Original line: Downham and Stoke Ferry Railway
Photographer: Mark Dufton
Contact photographer: Mark Dufton
Date: 29/03/1980
Image number: 84949
