Railway photography exhibition featuring over 100 lost Bittern Line and Wherry Lines scenes opens on August 11.
A new railway photography exhibition will premier in the Parcels Office at Lowestoft railway station from Monday 11 August.
“Left at the Junction” offers various glimpses of local journeys taken over five decades on the Bittern Line from Norwich via North Walsham to Cromer and Sheringham and the Wherry Lines three routes from Norwich via the Broads National Park to Great Yarmouth and Lowestoft.
As part of national celebrations marking 200 years since the first passenger railway, the Bittern Line & Wherry Lines Community Rail Partnerships commissioned acclaimed railway photographer, David Pearce to produce a new exhibition of 100 railway photographs featuring locations and rolling stock taken over the last five decades.
Describing what people can view within the exhibition, photographer David said, “Although Norwich Thorpe 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 often continue to other destinations in Norfolk and Suffolk, sometimes even on the same train. “The focus of the exhibition is very much 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 11 until Saturday 23 August (closed Sun 17) from 10.30am to 4pm daily inside the Parcels Office exhibition space at Lowestoft railway station. Admission is free with no need to book in advance.
Between 11 and 14 August Lowestoft station also welcomes the Railway 200 Exhibition Train ‘ Inspiration’.