Downham Market station 2002 & 2020

 Downham Market station in 2004

Downham Market railway station in 2004 with a West Anglia Great Northern class 385534 EMU on a train to Kings Lynn and a WAGN class 365529 on a train towards Ely.

Downham Market railway station is on the Great Eastern main line from Cambridge to Kings Lynn. Downham Market is a small town and is the largest of the 3 stations in between Ely and Kings Lynn  This line is now called the Fen Line. Overhead wires electrified at 25 kV AC were put in when the line from Cambridge to Ely was wired.

The main station building at Downham Market in 2004

The Down Waiting Room at Downham Market railway station in 2004. 

The Ely to Kings railway in Cambridgeshire line starts at Ely North Junction at the small hamlet of Queen Adelaide were the line heads out into the fens alongside the river Ouse. The the line has overhead wires that is electrified at 25 kV AC. 

The first station along this line is Littleport which is a large village. Downham Market is next then Watlington station then Kings Lynn. Class 365 EMUs are used on most of the trains from Kings Lynn to Ely Cambridge and on to London Kings Cross, most trains stop at Downham Market .

Great Northern class 387 112 at Downham Market station 20th May 2020.

The class 365s have gone and have been replaced with 385s.There are now four stations open along the line between Kings Lynn and Ely ,they are:-

Littleport. This is a small town

Downham Market. This is a small town

Watlington. is a village

Kings Lynn is a town

       

     

 Page updated 1/6/2020