Abandoned Lines and Stations
For M and GN information:- The Stations and Structures of the Midland and Great Northern Joint Railway. Two volumes by Nigel Digby.
Contributions to this album would be very welcome.
Other related sites:-
Berney Arms Web. Railways in the Great Yarmouth area. http://berneyarms.co.uk/html/yarmouth/rail/railway.htm
The Reshaping of The Stour Valley Line. The effects of the closure of this line including a photo gallery. http://stourline.co.uk
Disused Stations Site. Nick Catford's excellent resource.. http://www.disused-stations.org.uk/
Kings Lynn to Hunstanton you tube. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lyp3wBqCuvE
Video from 1961 of a class 31 at Rodbridge level Crossing, Long Melford. on the Stour Valley Line. http://www.eafa.org.uk/catalogue/98971
Wisbech and Upwell Tramway. Film from 1961 http://www.eafa.org.uk/catalogue/139644
Last Train From Aldeburgh. Silent film from 10th September 1966. http://www.eafa.org.uk/catalogue/517
Highly recommended. Excellent collection of disused stations on flickr here:- http://www.flickr.com/photos/blue-pelican-railways/
Colour film from 1959 featuring The Cambridge to Mildenhall branch : http://lode.ccan.co.uk/content/catalogue_item/cambridge-to-mildenhall-line-2
Facebook:- Friendly Facebook discussion group here. https://www.facebook.com/groups/497395890391199/?fref=ts
Colour film from the last day of the Cambridge to Sudbury line, taken between Pampisford and Haverhill. 4th March 1967 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8DflFQ3wuqY
Soham, Cambridgeshire.
The scene at Soham on 2nd June 1944 when the front wagon of a Whitemoor to White Colne ammunition train containing forty, five hundred pound bombs caught fire and exploded in the station area. Both the driver, Benjamin Gimbert and fireman, James Nightall received the George Cross and LNER medal for their bravery in detaching the wagon and moving it away from the residential area of Soham. The station was destroyed and seven hundred houses damaged, but the town escaped devastation. Regretably, during the incident Fireman Nightall and the on duty signalman, Frank Bridges, were killed, and the driver badly injured. The view is facing Fordham. Image source. The Cambridgeshire Collection. Information source. A Regional History Of The Railways Of Great Britain Vol 5. D.I. Gordon.
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on June 23, 2014The locomotive involved in the Soham explosion was W.D. 2-6-0 No 7337, a locomotive which later became known as Army No-400 "Sir Guy Williams" At Soham, the extensive damage caused by the exploding wagon included a massive crater and the destruction of the signal box. Despite this , the line reopened later the same day and the remaining wagons of the train involved eventually completed their journey. The wagon which never arrived at White Colne or rather what was left of it, remains to this day buried in the bottom of the former crater and undisturbed by today's trains passing a few metres above.
Darren Kitson. 20th June 2014