 Station Name: YARMOUTH SOUTH TOWN
South Town station viewed from the signal box on Thursday 3 May 1962. Brush Type 2 No.D5575 is departing from Platform 4 with a parcels and/or perishables train for Lowestoft and Ipswich. As always at South Town, rolling stock is scattered around on a 'find somewhere to put it' basis. At the platforms are examples of Gresley, Thompson and BR Mk1 stock while at the cattle dock, of all places, sits a lone BR Mk1 which is either a BSO or BSK. At far right and sharing a siding with some open wagons, some of which have tarpaulins, is a BR GUV van and an LMS designed BG. These vehicles are hiding the coal wharf which was on the extreme right and beyond which were further sidings, upon which more wagons, open and box van types, can just be made out. Messrs Pickfords premises is in the right background while beyond it, but on the other side of the river, stands the clock tower of Great Yarmouth Town Hall. The siding to the left of the parcels train has a short stub siding branching from it, just beyond which was a loading dock for the maltings. On the stub siding stand two Bulk Grain wagons; once a common sight in East Anglia, the type became generally well known due to being modelled by Hornby-Dublo. The track between Platform 1 and the cattle dock is that which bullied its way across Southtown Road to the goods yard. It split into two tracks just behind the Mk1 coach. No. D5575 was new to traffic in December 1959, allocated to Norwich Thorpe. After a brief spell at March she returned to Norwich and was allocated there when photographed at South Town. After many years jostling between various East Anglian and London sheds, during which time she morphed into No.31157 and then into No.31424, she ended up at Crewe from where she was withdrawn in May 1996. She was to linger for a further ten years, however, before being scrapped at Rotherham, not at the well known Booth's yard but at the lesser known and relatively recently established Parkgate yard of Ron Hull.
Photo by British Railways Chief Civil Engineer, King's Cross, and courtesy of Bob Randall  Home Page
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