Station Name: YARMOUTH SOUTH TOWN
These pages arguably contain ample pictures of South Town station after closure but a few colour examples make a refreshing change. This was the scene sometime during 1975 when Sante Fe had a presence; a North Sea exploration company. They rented the station for warehousing and distribution to the oilfields in the Southern North Sea. The lighter squares on the front of the building mark where railway posterboards had once been fixed. The doorway on the right had been the exit from the booking hall, at least in theory as passengers appear to have been able to use either door in or out. In this view the doorway has been altered. No photographs are known to exist showing the interior of the former booking hall, as opposed to the concourse, after closure so we can only guess at what alterations occurred. However, what we can establish is that the alteration to the doorway must have to been to facilitate loading and unloading of vans or lorries. If so there would have been some form of raised floor or ramp inside the building. The doorway at far left gave access to, and only to, the stationmaster's lobby with stairs to the first floor and also to a small cupboard-like coal store in the corner of the ground floor, to the left of the door. Given this understanding, the signs on and beside the door imply the first floor was in use for one purpose or another but precisely what is not known. The second doorway from the left was public access to the former parcels and luggage office. There was no access via this doorway to the first floor. The car is a Ford 213E, better known as the Zephyr/Zodiac Mark III. The wider 'C Pillar' tells us this is a Zephyr. The registration number appears, with difficulty, to be YCF 85 which tells us the car was new in April or May 1964. CF was a Suffolk registration and the Y informs us this was the last batch of registrations issued by Suffolk prior to the 'B' suffix coming into use later that same year.
Photo by Lamberhurst and reproduced from Wikipedia under Creative Commons licence
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