HILLINGTON STATION- 1

(Above) Looking west towards Lynn probably in the early 1920s. Note the Signal Box in its original position halfway down the paltform on the right.

(Below) A lone steam engine runs west towards King's Lynn. The gradient rising towards Fakenham is clear. The signal box was moved from its original position so that the signalman could also control the crossing gates. Note the topiary, the flowers, the lit platform lamps and the telegraph poles with multiple insulators.

(Below) "Hillington Station for Sandringham" - shortly after closure. Built in 1879 on the King's Lynn to Fakenham Railway, later the Midland and Great Northern Railway and occasionally used by the Royal family instead of Wolferton, it closed in the early 1960s for passenger traffic, although the line remained open for freight into the 1970s as far as what is now the "Dogotel" (delivering fuel to the former oil depot on Peddars Way for the US airbase at Sculthorpe?)