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Station Road, DISS, IP21 4TF

View south-east along the dismantled trackbed of the Waveney Valley Line as it passes Pulham Market Station > http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1592892. This is now a private farm track. The converted station building is immediately north-west from here. The Waveney Valley Line ran from a junction with the London to Norwich mainline at Tivetshall > http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1572341 - http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1572337, servicing the market towns of Harleston,, Bungay and Beccles, where it connected with the East Suffolk line to Yarmouth. The line was opened between 1855 and 1863 but its first stations (Starston > http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1592857 and Redenhall) were closed as early as 1866. The passenger service was eventually withdrawn in 1953. Freight services were but back in 1960 and in 1966 the line was closed. Part of its route - between Harleston and Broome - has since been taken over by the realigned A143 road.

The crossing was designated the number 13 and was down from the railway station. As with most crossings the road is raised at the crossing point because of the track being embanked. The signal Box stood just to the right of the crossing on this, the Up-side of the line.

On the former trackbed passing Bridge Farm, with the crossing gates ahead and the station building in sight. On the immediate left is where the Admiralty Siding loop turnout was located. The siding was constructed in 1915-16 to serve Pulham Airfield and the experimentation and operation of the airships. The Royal Naval Air Station was established in 1912, on land acquired from 3 farms, including Upper Vaunces farm, and the siding officially named Upper Vaunces Farm Siding. Airships flew from here to engage in patrols over the North Sea.