Coastal Tracks - Lowestoft Central Traditional Cache
cushtycache: Cache gone amongst the building work to revamp the car park. Will archive and give someone else the chance to explore this area with a new cache. Would make for a good one in the Sidetracked series, this being the most easterly station in Britain! Regards, Cushty.
Coastal Tracks - Lowestoft Central
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A series of caches to commemorate the 40th anniversary of the Lowestoft to Great Yarmouth railway's closing.
This is a quick nano cache and dash at Lowestoft station car park. Stealth is needed.
The coastal stretch of the Norfolk And Suffolk Joint Railway opened in 1903, linking Lowestoft with two of Great Yarmouth's three railway stations, both of which have now been demolished.
Passengers departing from Lowestoft Central would wind their way through the town via cuttings and under a series of bridges
(there were twenty three in total on this relatively short line) stopping at Lowestoft North, Corton, Hopton, Gorleston Links and Gorleston.
Further north the line split, taking passengers into Southtown station (close to the Haven Bridge), or over the vast expanse of Breydon Water via an 800 foot steel viaduct to Beach station in Nelson Road, where connections to the Midlands and North could be made.
Yarmouth Beach station closed in 1959, but the route between Lowestoft and Yarmouth Southtown remained open until 1970 - the final train departing at 9.10pm on 2nd May.
Lowestoft station was built in 1855 and remains the terminus for the Wherry Line (to Norwich) and East Suffolk Line (to Ipswich). The station has undergone some modernisation in recent years but still retains it's British Railways enamel signage, one of few on the network to do so.
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