No chance of any copyright infringement with that map, unless your grand daughter demands royalties. The engine shed was demolished around 1985, when the new ASDA was built. It was long gone by 1993. Track for Platform 1 has now been lifted, which you probably mention in Pt 2.
Wonderful - liked the use the whiteboard too! Looking forward to next part - good to see those sidings brought back into use, shame about the signalling changes!
Just like Harrogate in the 1980’s losing its shunting yard to a supermarket development , removing all railway infrastructure other than the bare essential lines into a station. Perhaps some sidings are ripe for development but all loop lines should be held in railway ownership because plans change and there could come a time when they decide need to re use.
I used all three of the Great Yarmouth stations back in 1958/59. I worked for the Met Office in those days and the Upper Air Training School (where they taught one how to send up weather balloons and how to analyse the data that was sent back) was located beside the Hemsby to Great Ormesby road. The service on a Sunday which took me from Southend Victoria via Shenfield arrived at Yarmouth South Town which I recall as being a not unpleasant terminus station. I, like most of the trainees, stayed at the Gables Guest House on Yarmouth Road run by an appropriately named couple, Mr & Mrs RKO Guest, ably assisted by a Mrs Wilson. If one stayed to the end of the performance at the cinema in Yarmouth on a Saturday, one could miss the last bus back to Hemsby, BUT there was always the train which left later from Yarmouth Beach station. One weekend, I was returning home and had to use Yarmouth Vauxhall to travel via Norwich (where the train reversed) and change at Colchester. By the time the train got to Colchester, after hammering down via Diss, the loco had bust a gut and steam was pouring out everywhere.
Thanks for that. Its always nice to hear something about the history of the local area. In parts 3 & 4 I shall be looking at South Town and Beach stations.
Thanks for your comments. I got the date 1993 from a book/mag called On Shed by Kelsey media 2018. But I guess if Asda was built in1989 then they would not have wanted an old steam shed as part of their complex. Of course they could always have turned it into a themed cafe ha ha.
Thank you, yes most people only know Yarmouth as a seaside resort. It was also a large fishing port and now it serves the north sea off shore industries.
