Date: 23/04/2020

It was a rail link that served thousands of people each week in two coastal towns for more than 60 years. And now memories are being sought of the much missed rail link between Great Yarmouth and Lowestoft, ahead of the 50th anniversary of its closure.

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It was a rail link that served thousands of people each week in two coastal towns for more than 60 years.

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The remains of the once imposing terminus of the East Suffolk Railway at Yarmouth South Town, seen in May 1976. It was ultimately doomed by the expense of maintaining swing bridges at Beccles and Haddiscoe, closing in 1970 and razed to the ground in 1978.
Location: Yarmouth South Town
Company: Yarmouth and Haddiscoe Railway (East Suffolk Railway)
/05/1976 Mark Dufton

The holiday season is just about getting under way at the former Midland and Great Northern Yarmouth Beach station on May 31st 1976. Then serving out its twilight years as a car park and coach station, there is reasonable interest in the refreshment caravan and its seductive signboard reading 'Hot Dogs 15p'.
Location: Yarmouth Beach
Company: Great Yarmouth and Stalham Light Railway
31/05/1976 Mark Dufton

A full house at Lowestoft on 16th May 1981, with a Norwich service departing, an Ipswich service boarding and Class 31 and 08 locos in the sidings. The sadly missed overall roof lasted until 1992 see image [[43037]]. Platform 1 (far left) fell into disuse after the line to Yarmouth South Town closed in 1970.
Location: Lowestoft
Company: Lowestoft Railway and Harbour
16/05/1981 Mark Dufton