Old, and Some New, Photographs, of Woodbridge & Melton
Aerial view of the station in 1930. The red arrows highlight the parts of the station.
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The wooden bridge over the railway provided easy access to the down line towards Ipswich.
The station masters house was on the left of this photograph. The booking office was in the centre and the goods depot was on the right.
After the railway arrived the Anchor Inn changed its name to the Station Hotel.
On the right hand side of the entrance to the station there was a sizable building owned by A. J. Garnham. He was a jobmaster providing a range of transports.
Because of weight limits, horses were used to pull wagons on the goods lines by the station and along the goods line running to the quays up river.
Expanded view of the station. The grain store, and the two railway lines associated with it, can be clearly seen in the lower part of this aerial photograph.
There used to be a railway line running along the left hand side of this former grain store. Individual waggons were hauled up the railway line by a pair of horses up to a turntable which enabled the waggon to be pulled through the gain store to be loaded undercover. Once loaded the waggon would be pulled back onto the main goods line.
This photograph shows the grain store just before its conversion to a number of commercial units. Carts delivered corn one of the large entrances and it was stored under cover before it could be loaded on to railway wagons and taken back to the main goods line.
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