Station Name: NORWICH CITY[Source:Glen Kilday]
Norwich City Station Gallery 5: 1959 - June 1965  Diesel Multiple units gradually took over most local services in East Anglia after September 1955 and the Norwich City line was no exception. In this view from 1959 a Metropolitan Cammell 2-car set had arrived at City station’s east platform.
Photo from Stuart McPherson's Flickr Photostream 
An undated photo of the east platform at Norwich City probably taken in the late 1950s. The bay platforms may have seen their last passenger departure and were used for wagon storage and the rails on the locomotive run round appear disused.
Photo from Ted Burgess collection 
An undated photo of the east platform and station building at Norwich City probably taken in the late 1950s. It is hard to escape the air of not-quite-shabby that the photo displays. The station closed to passengers in March 1959.
Photo from John Mann collection  A cold, desolate and war-wounded Norwich City station on Saturday 7 February 1959, less than one month before the station, along with most, but not all, of the former M&GN system closed to passengers. The DMU is about to depart for Melton Constable and the driver is in the cab clearing snow from his windscreen. The DMU is one of the Metro-Cammell 79xxx 'Yellow Diamond' types. These units differed in a number ways from the later Metro-Cammells, which went on to become Class 101. The 79xxx Metro-Cammells comprised only 36 two-car units, of which seven worked in the Manchester area. The remainder spent their entire lives in East Anglia and East London but all had gone from passenger service, through no fault of their own, by 1969. The two boxes, one beneath each outer windscreen, were receptacles for the multiple-unit jumper cables. In early years, as here, the cables where stowed in the cabs when not required but later dummy receptacles, for stowage when the units were not running in multiple, were fitted on the cab front and the cables usually kept on the outside. This was one of the areas in which these units differed from Class 101. Another was the saloon heaters, each 79xxx car being fitted with only one so passengers, if there were any, would have had a chilly journey on that February day in 1959.
Photo from Ted Burgess collection  Norwich City booking office on 27 February 1959, the last day of public service.
Photo copyright Archant Library / EDP  B12 4-6-0 61572 was probably the last locomotive to use the 60 foot turntable at Norwich City when it was used for a commemorative excursion, M. & G.N. and Waveney Valley Rail Tour, on 8 October 1960, 19 months after the line had closed to passengers. The locomotive was built by Beyer Peacock for the Great Eastern in 1928. Its final BR shed was Norwich Thorpe from where it was withdrawn on 20 September 1961, the last of its class, but it was not scrapped. In 2018 it could be found at work on the North Norfolk Railway. Two or three men are turning the loco manually.Photo from Stuart McPherson's Flickr Photostream 
On 8 October 1960 the Midland & Great Northern Railway Society ran a special train covering several East Anglian lines that had already closed to passengers. The M. & G.N. and Waveney Valley Rail Tourstarted at City station at 12.30pm, the ECS having come from Norwich earlier in the day. It was possibly the only passenger train ever to use the new spur from the Bure Valley line to the Norwich City branch that had opened earlier in 1960.
Photo
by David Pearson
B12 4-6-0 61572 await departure from Norwich City station hauling the M. & G.N. and Waveney Valley Rail Tour on 8 October 1960.
Photo by David Pearson 
At Norwich City on 31 March 1962 as D5500 a Brush Type 2 (later Class 31) diesel was heading for the west platform, light engine. The imposing signal box was still in place but was taken down soon after the station closed. These locomotives were common-place across East Anglia as they gradually replaced steam in the mid-1950s. The second engine shed is seen on the far
right.
Copyright photo by Roger Joanes
In June 1965, six years after passenger services ceased Norwich City’s east platform and buildings were derelict and used for storage. The rails remained in place.
Photo by Bevan Price 
Norwich City station entrance in June 1965; although the station would remain open for goods traffic until February 1969 the main station building, which is only 20 years old, is looking unkempt and almost derelict. The brick base of the water tower, now without its tank, can be seen in the distance.
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