page_title: South Lynn railway station
section_title: History
hierarchical_section_title: South Lynn railway station / History
caption_attribution_description: Pre Grouping railway junction around Bourne, Little Bytham, March, Spalding, Stamford &amp; Wansford; Lynn &amp; South Lynn
context_page_description: South Lynn railway station was a station located in King's Lynn, Norfolk, on the Midland and Great Northern Joint Railway.
context_section_description: The Lynn & Sutton Bridge Railway was authorised on 6 August 1861, to build a line between those points. It was opened between King's Lynn and Sutton Bridge in November 1864; passenger trains began on 1 March 1866. The first station after King's Lynn was West Lynn, which was located at the western end of the bridge over the Great Ouse; that station was closed on 1 July 1886. The station at South Lynn was opened on 1 January 1886 along with other improvements in the area.
  South Lynn station was closed to passengers on 2 March 1959. It was located at the southern end of King's Lynn, and saw far less traffic than King's Lynn railway station.
caption: A 1903 Railway Clearing House map of railways in the vicinity of South Lynn (right)
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