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Ipswich bound dmu at Newmarket on 25th October 1977. In the background is the signal box which on 3rd January 1978 was damaged beyond repair by a freak storm and demolished two days later.
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Ipswich bound dmu at Newmarket on 25th October 1977. In the background is the signal box which on 3rd January 1978 was damaged beyond repair by a freak storm and demolished two days later.

Newmarket

  • A Cravens unit forming an Ipswich to Cambridge working nears the end of its journey at Coldhams Lane Junction, Cambridge. c1979. The floodlights of the Cambridge United Football Ground on Newmarket Road can be seen in the background.
  • Two car Cravens crosses Coldhams Common, Cambridge on a Cambridge to Harwich working in September 1980 with driver Cliff Fenn. On the skyline is the gasometer and the pumping station chimney off Newmarket Road. The latter as seen on TV when steeplejack Fred Dibnah climbed it.
  • Cherry Hinton Crossing, Cambridge on 24th October 1978. The working is the 1454 Cambridge to Harwich Town.
  • Fulbourn Signal Box, a Great Eastern Saxby and Farmer design which closed on 8th May 1983. The station goods shed can also be seen. 8th December 1979
  • Cravens two car unit forming the 1250 Cambridge to Ipswich passes Fulbourn Box ( BR spelt it with an e) 8th December 1979
  • Fulbourne station house.
  • Westley Road Crossing between Six Mile Bottom and Dullingham 8th December 1979.
  • Time was, when even small village stations such as Dullingham had a through hauled service to Liverpool Street. 37110 arrives, in charge of the 0712 Ipswich to Liverpool Street via Cambridge on a cold murky 22nd February 1978.
  • A pleasant rural scene at Dullingham. 30th June 2010.
  • Dullingham Signal Box. 30th June 2010
  • Dullingham 1979
  • Dullingham facing Newmarket from a postcard.
  • Dullingham with a nice view of the station house, now demolished.
  • North east of Dullingham is the bridge carrying the road to Stetchworth. An Ipswich bound dmu is approaching the bridge. The line has just been made single with the Up line truncated at this point. To the left is Dullingham's Up distant. 8th December 1979.
  • Rather poor shot of Wood Ditton crossing, Dullingham side of Newmarket.
  • Newmarket on 21st August 1975 with the 0953 Cambridge to Ipswich arriving. The supurb canopy on the down platform has long gone. This part of the platform is now disused.
  • Ipswich bound dmu at Newmarket on 25th October 1977. In the background is the signal box which on 3rd January 1978 was damaged beyond repair by a freak storm and demolished two days later.
  • 55015 "Tulya" passing Newmarket on a "Deltic through East Anglian" railtour on 3rd September 1978. The tour was to Lowestoft from Kings Cross via Cambridge and Norwich. The return trip was down the East Suffolk line to Ipswich and then back to Kings Cross via Cambridge.
  • Class 101 stands at the remaining platform at Newmarket. c1982
  • An unidentified class 37 stands in the Dower Wood grain sidings at Newmarket. 1981
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