Down Market (Station)

Hair dryer line

Legend Distances from London Station - Liverpool Street Kings lynn 156.07 km to Hanston at middleton towers to the port of Kings Lynn Kings Lynn Port Fork Midland & Great Northern Rly Saint Germaines Watlington 146.20 km to Wisbech East Home Stow Bardolph Down Market 138.53 km Denver Downem Line - Stoke Ferry Outlet channel Wissi River Little Uz River Uz bridge Hilgay Littleport 122.33 km Breckland Line to norwich Ili Line - Peterborough on Peterborough Queen Adelaide's noose Great Uz River Or 113.25 km Line Ipswich - Ili Waterbeach 98.19 km Cambridge north Vetka Cambridge - St Ives river Kam Cambridge - Mildenhall Line Line Ipswich - Ili Cambridge 89.56 km University line Fork in Shepret Cambridge line to London - Kings Cross West England Highway to London - Liverpool Street

Downem Station (that was its original name) was opened on October 27, 1846 ^[1] , as part of the implementation of the Parliamentary Law of 1845 on the construction of the railway between the cities of Kings Lynn and Ili , which was approved by the Royal Sanction on June 30, 1845 . Initially, the new railway ran only between Kings-Lynn and Down Station, which was the last for almost a year, until October 25, 1847 , the movement of trains along the Down- Ili section was opened. Thus, Kings-Lynn and its port were connected directly to London through Downham, where trains from the capital began to arrive.

On June 1, 1981, the Downem station was renamed the Downem Market - in exact accordance with the name of the city where it is located ^[1] .

In 1992, Downem Market station, like the entire Fen Line , was electrified by air contact suspension with an alternating current of 25 kV. Electrification was carried out by Network SouthEast , a structural unit of the state-owned company British Rail , which carried out passenger transportation in the east and south of the country. In April 2017, at the initiative of the Railway Heritage Trust, the station celebrated the 30th anniversary of the start of electrification. The decoration of the passenger halls in the station and platform pavilions was carried out in the colors of Network SouthEast - red, white and blue. Also, new red-white-blue signs were installed, characteristic of the 1980s - early 1990s . - the times of Network SouthEast ^[2] .

Trains of two operators pass through the station and, accordingly, stop at it:

• Great Northern serves the route from London Kings Cross Station to Kings Lynn Station. There is one train per hour on the Fen Line to Kings Lynn Station ^[3] . The route is served by trains of types Class 365 (or, sometimes, Class 317 ). Starting in May 2017, these trains are replaced by Class 387s- type trains ^{[4] [5]} .

• Greater Anglia serves the station with a limited number of trains. On weekdays, in the morning rush hours , two trains pass through the station to London ( Liverpool Street Station ), which follow from Kings Lynn Station. In the opposite direction, in the evening rush hours , three trains also go through Downham Market to Kings Lynn ^[6] . On Saturday and Sunday there is no traffic on this route. The route is served by electric trains of the Class 317 and Class 379 types ^[7] .

• The station building, built in 1846, made of ferruginous sandstone with fawn brick decoration, is included in the National Heritage List of England with assignment to it of class II - “a building of special interest, with a guarantee of any necessary actions to preserve it” ^{[8] [9 ] [9 ] ]} .

• Also in 2013 , in 2013, a wooden signal booth built by the Great Eastern Highway in 1881 was included in the List of England’s National Heritage , in class II ^[10] .

• Butt, RVJ The Directory of Railway Stations - Details every public and private passenger station, halt, platform and stopping place, past and present. - Patrick Stephens Limited, 1995. - P. 209. - ISBN 1-85260-508-1 .