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Kings Lynn
Ely to Kings Lynn
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Kings Lynn Junc signal box in 2013
Kings Lynn junction box is still in 2015 at the levell crossing crossing at Tennison Ave in Kings Lynn near the station. This crossing controls a set of lifting barries. There was a large brick foot bridge at this crossing which has now gone. This went I think when the overhead wire were put up.
This level crossing which Kings Lynn Junc signal box controled at Tennison Ave was and still is at the end of the station throat and much shunting went over this crossing when steam locomotives were used on passenger trains. Be for the two road by passes were built, this crossing was on the main road though Kings Lynn for trafic to Hunstanton and Cromer at weekends. The cars went back for many miles when the level crossing kept being closed.
The Department for Transport has given the go ahead (2014?) to upgrade the Ely North Junction. This will help to give Kings Lynn more trains per hour.
Kings Lynn Junction signal box from the steps end, be for the windows were changed to PVC and the ledge used to clean the windows was removed. see photo above
In 2021 Kings Lynn Junction box is set to be closed. Kings Lynn and the line from Ely will be controlled from the Anglia Regional Operations Centre at Romford.
The town of Kings Lynn is to north of Cambridge and is at the mouth of the River Ouse as it enters the Wash. Kings Lynn is a port which used to have a a lot of rail traffic to and from the docks but this has now stopped.
There was also a line to Derham opened by the Lynn and Dereham Railway which is now closed apart from the first few miles to Middleton Towers that is freight only and sees trains of sand still on most days of the working week in 2015.
Kings Lynn railway station is on the Great Eastern main line from Cambridge 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 electrified
There are three stations along the line between Kings Lynn and Ely still open they are:-
Watlington station. This station was called Magdalen Road befor it closed. The station was reopened in 1975 as Magdalen Road. Then in 1989 it was renamed back to its original title of Watlington which it was called when it opened.
Downham Market. This is the biggest small town on the line
Littleport. This is a large village
The M&GNJR had its own station on the outskirts of Kings Lynn called South Lynn which closed in 1959 when the M&GN did. There were passenger trains that ran between between the two Kings Lynn stations.
Next page is Ely station in 2019
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Page updaded 1/6/2020