In celebration of Railway 200, the Bittern Line & Wherry Lines Community Rail Partnerships have commissioned acclaimed railway photographer, David Pearce to produce a new exhibition of railway photographs featuring locations and rolling stock across Norfolk and Suffolk taken over the last five decades.
Although Norwich Thorpe Station is, to all intents and purposes, a terminal station with buffers at the end of each platform, it may also be regarded as a ‘through station’. Journeys do not necessarily terminate here but continue on to other destinations in Norfolk and Suffolk, sometimes even on the same train. The same can also be said for journeys in the opposite direction for anyone, be it for business or pleasure, on their way by train to other parts of the UK.
As the country celebrates 200 years of rail travel with ‘Railway 200’, “LEFT AT THE JUNCTION” is an exhibition that offers various glimpses of local journeys on the Bittern and Wherry Lines over the past five decades. In particular the focus is on the trains themselves, mostly in everyday scenes, but sometimes seldom seen. For their time the passenger trains featured might have been considered ‘modern’, but now are looked upon, perhaps, with nostalgia, regret even at their passing, or possibly relief that those ‘old rattle-traps’ have given way to quicker, quieter and more comfortable journeys!
Left at the Junction runs from Monday 11th until Saturday 16th August , 10am to 4pm daily inside the Lowestoft Central Project’s restored Parcels Office Exhibition Space at Lowestoft Railway Station. Admission is FREE and no need to book in advance. Between 11th and 14th August Lowestoft station also welcomes the Railway 200 Exhibition Train ‘ Inspiration’.