Seen around Stowmarket

Thursday 11th June 2026 Passing through Stowmarket a few weeks ago to take a ride on the new bus route down to Hadleigh I noticed a few oddities about the Greater Anglia run railway station. It’s a lovely station building sporting two plaques that record its restoration was a joint project between British Rail (remember them?) and the Railway Heritage Trust and was completed in 1987 with two “British Rail customers” (Miss A M C Davey and Miss E E Westgate) performing the unveiling ceremonies. Which presumably explains why there are two plaques. Miss Davey unveiled one and Miss Westgate the other. The only problem is, almost 40 years later, there are some aspects of the frontage which look rather dodgy. Not least it’s a shame there are metal barriers around both extreme ends of the building each sporting a faded sign inviting tenants to call an unidentifiable phone number. Sadly it doesn’t look very encouraging. However, the shelter to the left of the building, which is presumably…