South Lynn and King's Lynn Railway Stations - M&GN

[RomeoHotel]

Photo of my grandfather Joe Feltwell (standing in the doorway) of his engine . He spent all his working life at South Lynn with the M&GN and was a driver for many years. Captioned taken at Leicester 1948

[incony]

While searching for some information, i found a source of photographs showing stations and lines around and including Kings Lynn.

For example, here is some of Kings Lynn Station environs..

http://www.rcts.org.uk/features/mysteryphotos/index.htm?location=King%27s+Lynn&srch=&page=0


There are some of the line to Hunstanton,Swaffham and Wisbech... and many ive not seen before.

You can see from the site, one can scroll down a list... and choose.. its worthwhile, since many are taken between stations, and show parts one cannot see now..try it...

The other way, is to click on mystery photographs, and use the text search.. pics Y-16 To Y-20 show a lot of this area, so try that too... Type Y-17 into the text search box for example..

[EWW]

Some fantastic pictures there that will help our model maker. Brilliant!

[incony]

for me, a very special photo, was seeing the approach to where the M & GN crossed the GER Line to Swaffam on its way to Middleton Towers, with the bridge still in place.. i pass that view nearly everyday now.. but the bridge is gone.. and the views of Hunstanton , with the signal box still in place.. remarkable pictures.. so good to share...

but the one with the bridge which is thought to be the line to dereham , cant be the old m and gn crossing because the line was single track to middleton after the kings lynn siidings.. not double... and the bridge structure is the wrong shape...

[EWW]

The one for me is looking up towards Hunstanton with the bridge over the track
beside the Gaywood Park School, so many memories. The people that put that
site together have done a superb job, so much dedication. Great find incony.

[incony]

You see something else too now, i think, EWW, it begins with A. but i also think you might need to consider that.

[EWW]

Been pondering that one incony. Do you mean Application Form?

[David Riches]

Don't know if these are of any help but here are a couple of photos of South Lynn and King's Lynn stations taken on April 20th 1956 by the U.S Airforce, the photos are part of a collection my late grandfather owned and i recently scanned a lot of them in to preserve them. These shots have been cropped from much larger images which are probably too big to post on here (you need to zoom in quite a lot), i will crop some more soon and post them on here, I also have ones from Hunstanton, Cromer, Sherringham, Docking, Castle Acre, Castle Rising, Fakenham, Ringstead, Norwich, Sandringham, Wells Next The Sea, East Dereham, Houghton Hall, Holkham Hall and London (all taken between 1955 and 1956) if anyone is interested.

[incony]

YES.. more please, lots more.. anything from Norfolk, and any method of getting the originals to use for non commercial application.
Great source of history , i think, invaluable.

[supergt1971]

Have you any aeriel shots of terrington st clement david?

[David Riches]

I'm afraid i don't have any aerial shots of Terrington.

[StevieJacks]

Photos of Fakenham and the intermediate stations from Lynn would be amazing, any on the Hunstanton branch too

[chapesse]

West Yard, South Lynn. 1927

[Alastair]

Delbert has previously posted a map section, this is (I think) an earlier map than the one posted before. This is from the 1929 Edition and shows the full extent of South Lynn Station.



Not shown is the siding into Cooper's, but it is on the map.


And the other edge catches at least part of Hardwick Road Siding.



There might be another 1/4" or so to reveal on the eastern edge of Hardwick Road, I need to do some careful restoration and remove some gummed paper tape from the map.

[incony]

Stevie, on the east anglian film archive, there is a short film of Fakenham East Station

http://www.eafa.org.uk/catalogue/213365