2. Railways

Ipswich to Lowestoft

Reference for dates etc. An Illustrated History of the East Suffolk Railway. John Brodribb.
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Melton Signal Box. Image :-with kind permission of David Underwood.
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Melton Signal Box. Image :-with kind permission of David Underwood.

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  • Beccles from an old post card that caught my eye on Yarmouth Market c 1976. A train is standing in the Waveney Valley platform on the left and the Beccles North signal box is prominent to the left of the engine.
  • Lowestoft Central, around the early sixties. Platform one is still in use with what looks like a Class 31, probably on a Yarmouth South Town working. A Class 24 waits in platform two with a Metro Cammel DMU at Platform three. The station has rather more protection from the elements then it has now.
  • LNER Lowestoft travel poster.
  • Lowestoft before removal of the overall roof, March 1992. Photo with kind permission of Ian Dinmore, Copyright <a href="http://www.railarchive.org.uk">http://www.railarchive.org.uk</a>
  • Melton Signal Box. Image :-with kind permission of David Underwood.
  • Norwich Road Bridge, Ipswich.
  • Oulton Broad South Junction, undated. The line to the right went to Lowestoft South Side, Kirkley and the docks area. The main line to the left heads towards the swing bridge.
  • A nice shot of Oulton Broad South Junction, with a freight coming off the line from Lowestoft South Side. The line to Lowestoft South Side closed in 1970. The signal box was abolished on 20th February 1973. Photographer unknown.
  • Great Eastern Railway Poster.
  • Lowestoft Signal Box. Image:- Richard Thomas.
  • Victoria Road crossing keepers cottage viewed from the footbridge. Photo:- Bernie Ward.
  • Turbostar, 170270 stands at Westerfield on 2nd July 2019. In the background a temporary footbridge has been erected to enable pedestrians to cross the line. The B1077 road has been closed while Network Rail carry out work on the barriers, conversion of AHB to full barriers. To the left is signal CO206. A once familiar unit across the area, 170270 has now been transferred to Cardiff Canton depot.
  • During the summer of 2019, the B1077 road which crosses the East Suffolk line at Westerfield was closed while Network Rail carried out conversion work on the crossing from AHB to full barriers. This was the scene on 12th June 2019 showing the temporary footbridge over the line.
  • Halesworth. Section entry board and Radio Electronic Token Block RETB radio repeater mast on 10th September 2010. On approaching the board a driver would call up the control centre at Saxmundham by radio and request entry into the advanced section. A token would be delivered by sending data over the analogue radio system, this was displayed in the cab. Once received the driver could proceed. The board was equivalent to a conventional red stop signal. The system was electronically interlocked so that no other train could enter the section at the same time. The RETB control is no longer operational as the system used signals in the 200Mhz band III. The OFCOM operating licence for this frequency band would not have been renewed after the end of 2012 and consequently the RETB system closed on 19th October 2012 and was replaced by conventional signalling, but still locally controlled from Saxmundham. The RETB system was originally introduced on 16th February 1986.
  • Wickham Market
  • Turbostar 170204 in "one" livery stands at Wickham Market with the 0938 Liverpool Street to Lowestoft working on 2nd April 2008.
  • Turbostar 170204 in "one" livery arrives at Wickham Market with the 0938 Liverpool Street to Lowestoft service on 2nd April 2008. The abandoned Up platform is to the left.
  • Melton facing Woodbridge. 2nd April 2008
  • Halesworth. 3rd May 2008
  • 37049 heads onto the home straight at Oulton Broad Junction with the 0952 Summer Saturdays only Liverpool Street to Lowestoft. Taken with a 200mm lens from the bridge at Normanston Park. Think I was lucky to get the last carriage in the shot. Oulton Broad North station is in the background. 30th August 1980.
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