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[Thehooperman]

It's a portal to another Universe. Filled with train spotters wearing grey anoraks and scribbling in Ian Allen books.

Suffolk in general is another Universe!!!

 

[Gramaisc]

Well done @Glam and @Gramaisc both correct. How did you find the location?

Apparently there was also a passenger width section that was pushed out manually by station staff to allow pedestrians to cross before the vehicle "gates" were opened.

I Googled 'railway platform boulton paul' and it brought up this image.

...from the museum page. via - https://www.suffolkmag.co.uk/out-about/places/visiting-halesworth-museum-1-5898088

 

[Gramaisc]

Apparently there was also a passenger width section that was pushed out manually by station staff to allow pedestrians to cross before the vehicle "gates" were opened.

One of each of the gate-halves was an inter-platform connection, it seems.

 

[Gramaisc]

Also on a railway theme, the bridges next to Izaak Walton's Cottage are quite noteworthy - the road bridge actually goes diagonally over the separate rail bridge underneath it, as both of them also cross the Meece Brook.

I wonder if there was a level crossing there in the early days? Until it went four-track, as happened at the Spittal Brook.

 

[Noah]

It says that it is a Boulton & Paul product, made in Norwich.

Thats what they did with the prototype Defiant!

 

[Thehooperman]

Thats what they did with the prototype Defiant!

Same company. They eventually had outlets in Norwich, London and Tipton according to this ad.

And made lots of other things such as windows, kitchen units, holiday camps, constructional steelwork for factories and this..

 

[Noah]

Halesworth?

About half what you pay for it.



(Sorry, very old joke pinched from one of the "Sorrows of Southwold" postcards)