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Great Yarmouth And Stalham Light Railway
All photographs of this railway in date order.
![The holiday season is just about getting under way at the former Midland and Great Northern Yarmouth Beach station on May 31st 1976. Then serving out its twilight years as a car park and coach station, there is reasonable interest in the refreshment caravan and its seductive signboard reading <I>'Hot Dogs 15p'</I>.<br><br>[Mark Dufton 31/05/1976]](/images/42000/42618.jpg "Yarmouth Beach")
![The Eastern & Midland Railway logo cast into the canopy spandrels is the giveaway to this location being the former Midland & Great Northern terminus at Yarmouth. The station did not really close to passengers in 1959 - it merely swapped trains for buses and carried on as a coach station until final demolition in 1986. This photo shows the deserted coach station in October 1977 and illustrates perfectly the reason for the railway's closure. Whereas the station was a hive of activity on summer Saturdays as holiday makers came and went, out of season there was very little passenger traffic.<br><br>[Mark Dufton 30/10/1977]](/images/25000/25459.jpg "Yarmouth Beach")
![A panorama of Yarmouth Beach station as it stood on 30th October 1977. The station was unusual in having undergone a direct rail to road traffic conversion after the last trains ran in 1959. As shown in the photo, bus and coach stances were installed at track level along the length of the platforms with platform access steps so waiting passengers could be sheltered and use the retained station offices and facilities. By modern standards, the unprotected platform edge would be unacceptable in a non-railway context. Demolition of the station took place in the mid 1980s.<br><br>[Mark Dufton 30/10/1977]](/images/57000/57845.jpg "Yarmouth Beach")
