South Lynn | |
Status: | Disused |
Address: | South Lynn |
Borough: | King's Lynn and West Norfolk |
Country: | England |
Grid Name: | Grid reference |
Platforms: | 2 |
Original: | Eastern & Midlands Railway |
Pregroup: | Midland and Great Northern Joint Railway |
Postgroup: | Midland and Great Northern Joint Railway Eastern Region of British Railways |
Years: | 1 January 1886 |
Events: | Opened |
Years1: | 2 March 1959 |
Events1: | Closed to passengers |
Years2: | 2 May 1966 |
Events2: | Closed as a coal depot |
South Lynn railway station was a railway station serving the areas of South Lynn and West Lynn in King's Lynn in Norfolk, England. The station was on the Midland and Great Northern Joint Railway.[1]
The Lynn & Sutton Bridge Railway was authorised on 6 August 1861, to build a line between those points.[2] It was opened between and in November 1864; passenger trains began on 1 March 1866. The first station after King's Lynn was West Lynn, which was located at the western end of the bridge over the Great Ouse; that station was closed on 1 July 1886.[3] The station at South Lynn was opened on 1 January 1886 along with other improvements in the area.
South Lynn station was closed to passengers on 2 March 1959.[4] It was located at the southern end of King's Lynn, and saw far less traffic than King's Lynn railway station.