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Lowestoft Railway And Harbour
All photographs of this railway in date order.
![Crossing Somerleyton swing bridge, Norfolk, in the 1980s. [See image 34037]<br><br>[Ian Dinmore //]](/images/12000/12052.jpg "Somerleyton")
![Sunshine on the 1847 Lowestoft station - still displaying one of the rapidly disappearing full size enamelled station name signs. The suffix 'Central' was carried between 1903 and 1970. <br><br>[Ian Dinmore //]](/images/13000/13117.jpg "Lowestoft")
![Reedham swing bridge swung open.<br><br>[Ian Dinmore //]](/images/57000/57441.jpg "Reedham Swing Bridge")
![DMU for Norwich approaching Somerleyton in July 1969.<br><br>[Colin Miller /07/1969]](/images/23000/23475.jpg "Somerleyton")
![On June 29th 1977, the station name board declared this destination as Lowestoft Central, despite the fact there was no other station in the town that might be confused with it. Up until May 1970, however, there was also Lowestoft North on the line to Yarmouth South Town. Visible in this view are the DMU services to Norwich and Ipswich, a Class 03 shunting locomotive and apparently failed stock from the Lowestoft - London service.<br><br>[Mark Dufton 29/06/1977]](/images/33000/33988.jpg "Lowestoft")
![A full house at Lowestoft on 16th May 1981, with a Norwich service departing, an Ipswich service boarding and Class 31 and 08 locos in the sidings. The sadly missed overall roof lasted until 1992 [see image 43037]. Platform 1 (far left) fell into disuse after the line to Yarmouth South Town closed in 1970.<br><br>[Mark Dufton 16/05/1981]](/images/43000/43255.jpg "Lowestoft")
![Lowestoft station with roof intact, 1983.<br><br>[Ian Dinmore //1983]](/images/12000/12895.jpg "Lowestoft")
![DMU leaving Somerleyton on the Lowestoft branch in December 1987.<br><br>[Ian Dinmore 21/12/1987]](/images/19000/19468.jpg "Somerleyton")
![Looking past the signal box at Somerleyton towards the swing bridge in October 1988. [See image 12052 for an aerial view]<br><br>[Ian Dinmore /10/1988]](/images/34000/34037.jpg "Somerleyton")
![<I>Please keep clear</I>. Looking out from the station concourse at Lowestoft in October 1988.<br><br>[Ian Dinmore 07/10/1988]](/images/34000/34058.jpg "Lowestoft")
![A lonely looking DMU stands at platform 2 at Lowestoft in August 1990.<br><br>[Ian Dinmore /08/1990]](/images/35000/35534.jpg "Lowestoft")
![Scene at Lowestoft prior to demolition work on the roof in March 1992.<br><br>[Ian Dinmore /03/1992]](/images/32000/32081.jpg "Lowestoft")
![Entrance to Lowestoft station in March 1992.<br><br>[Ian Dinmore /03/1992]](/images/33000/33781.jpg "Lowestoft")
![A DMU about to cross Reedham swing bridge, Norfolk, in March 1992. <br><br>[Ian Dinmore /03/1992]](/images/42000/42125.jpg "Reedham Swing Bridge")
![Leaving Somerleyton for Norwich - August 2003.<br><br>[Ian Dinmore /08/2003]](/images/43000/43019.jpg "Somerleyton")
![Trains for Norwich and Ipswich await their departure times at Lowestoft in 2004. [See image 43255]<br><br>[Ian Dinmore //2004]](/images/43000/43037.jpg "Lowestoft")
![Reedham swing bridge stands open to traffic on the River Yare in September 2004. [See image 44417]<br><br>[Ian Dinmore /09/2004]](/images/44000/44422.jpg "Reedham Swing Bridge")
![A DMU about to cross Somerleyton swing bridge in September 2004 on its way from Lowestoft to Norwich.<br><br>[Ian Dinmore 08/09/2004]](/images/42000/42386.jpg "Somerleyton")
![Crossing Reedham Swing Bridge, September 2004.<br><br>[Ian Dinmore 10/09/2004]](/images/42000/42984.jpg "Reedham Swing Bridge")
![A DMU boarding at Lowestoft platform 4 in January 2005. [See image 13117]<br><br>[Ian Dinmore /01/2005]](/images/42000/42015.jpg "Lowestoft")
![Looking west towards Norwich from Lowestoft station in January 2005 with a 'discussion group' meeting in the sidings alongside the docks.<br><br>[Ian Dinmore /01/2005]](/images/45000/45356.jpg "Lowestoft")
![A special run in connection with the Lowestoft Air Show crosses Reedham Swing Bridge on 27 July 2006. [See image 44422]<br><br>[Ian Dinmore 27/07/2006]](/images/44000/44417.jpg "Reedham Swing Bridge")
![View from a Norfolk <i>Wherry</i> passing the opened Reedham Swing bridge, which carries the Norwich - Lowestoft line, in July 2010.<br><br>[Ian Dinmore 09/07/2010]](/images/31000/31523.jpg "Reedham")
![The end of the railway tracks of the Norwich to Lowestoft line on the open Reedham swing bridge, seen from a passing vessel on 9 July 2010.<br><br>[Ian Dinmore 09/07/2010]](/images/34000/34754.jpg "Reedham")
![47810 about to pass a signal sighting board on the approach to Reedham in 2011. <br><br>[Ian Dinmore //2011]](/images/42000/42402.jpg "Reedham")
![The heavily-rationalised interior of Lowestoft (Central, as was) station is not a place to fill one with confidence that we are living in the age of the train, but the external façade provides a delightful surprise, as this 17th June 2011 shot demonstrates. Is this the oldest extant station name sign on any British station? <br><br>[David Spaven 17/06/2011]](/images/35000/35349.jpg "Lowestoft")
![A train for Norwich arriving at Reedham station in July 2011.<br><br>[Ian Dinmore 02/07/2011]](/images/43000/43512.jpg "Reedham")
![A 2-car DMU departing Lowestoft for Ipswich in the summer of 2011.<br><br>[Ian Dinmore 02/07/2011]](/images/43000/43668.jpg "Lowestoft")
![DRS 68004 <I>Rapid</I> crossing Reedham Swing Bridge on a Norwich - Great Yarmouth T&T service in September 2016.<br><br>[Ian Dinmore /09/2016]](/images/59000/59126.jpg "Reedham Swing Bridge")
