Station Name: MIDDLETON TOWERS Those parts of Middleton Towers station that remained in national rail network ownership when seen on 11 September 2010 had taken on a care-worn appearance. The gantry used to transfer sand from quarry to rail wagon straddled the former main line.
Photo by Alan Young 
The one-time waiting room at Middleton Towers that was added by the Great Eastern sometime after opening, was boarded-up and decaying on 10 September 2010.
Photo by Alan Young 
The sand loader straddling the former running line and its associated locomotive runround as they were at Middleton Towers on 11 September 2010. A derelict platelayers’ hut had survived and the posts for the station name-board, it removed 42 years earlier, remained in place. Incongruously, the grass behind the platform had been neatly trimmed.
Photo by Alan Young 
Middleton Towers station on 11 September 2010 looking west towards King’s Lynn. The supports for the running-in board are seen.
Photo by Alan Young  On 11 September 2010 a goods wagon body remained on the platform at Middleton Towers station: it can be seen in the same location in photographs from the 1950s.
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DB Schenker Class 66 No. 66230 stands at the head of its train of 18 loaded wagons as it prepares to depart the Sibelco sand terminal at Middleton Towers in Norfolk with the 6M88 Tuesdays and Thursdays-only sand working to Ellesmere Port on 11 March 11 2014
Photo
by Julian Hodgeson from his Flickr photostream
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DB Schenker Class 66 No. 66230 stands at the head of its train of 18 loaded wagons as it prepares to depart the Sibelco sand terminal at Middleton Towers in Norfolk with the 6M88 Tuesdays and Thursdays-only sand working to Ellesmere Port on 11 March 2014.
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DB Schenker Class 66 No. 66174 stands in the platform at the Middleton Towers loading terminal in Norfolk just prior to departing with its rake of loaded open sand wagons forming the 6M88 working to Ellesmere Port on 7 May 2013.
Photo by Julian Hodgeson from his Flickr photostream  Looking across the level crossing towards the north at Middleton Towers station in March 2018. 3M11C indicates that the location is 3 miles and 11 chains from King’s Lynn. The gates are
manually operated as was always the case. Photo by Glen Kilday 
At Middleton Towers, this photo from March 2018, the construction of the level crossing gate with its massive support and weight-bearing cables is clearly illustrated. With no staff present at this the terminal point for the freight-only branch line, the gates are operated by the train crew. Comparison with 1905 and 1962 pictures suggests that both post and gate were replaced sometime
between those dates. Photo
by Glen Kilday
The one-time main line looking eastwards through Middleton Towers station: a gantry for loading sand now covers the former main line and the exchange sidings beyond the station are reduced to a locomotive run-round loop.
Photo by Glen Kilday 
A close-up of the remaining platform buildings at Middleton Towers. There were exchange sidings where the sloping gantry loader is now situated: there is a locomotive run-round loop on that site. The station’s rudimentary general goods facilities were on a siding to the rear of the platform.
Photo by Glen Kilday
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