by the M&GN. It opened in 1933 and closed in 1959. Services Summer 1959 With the closure of Yarmouth Beach station in early 1959, Vauxhall became the focus of the summer Saturday traffic for Great Yarmouth. The station had always had a number of summer Saturday trains up to this point but this hike in numbers had led to some re-modelling of the station layout - platform lengthening and changes to carriage stabling - in order to cope with the additional traffic. A typical summer Saturday saw an additional 24 timetabled passenger trains from locations including York, Derby, Sheffield, Manchester, Leicester, and Sunderland. In addition, on 25 July 1959 there were an extra eight holiday relief workings that ran. Some local workings were cancelled to cope with this influx of trains, but it indicates the significant numbers of UK holiday makers still travelling by train and still holidaying in Great Yarmouth at this time. Present day There is one train each hour between Great Yarmouth and Norwich, with additional services during the morning and evening peaks. Most trains run via Acle, although there are still a number that run via Reedham. Sunday services tend to be hourly and, up to 16:00, every alternating service runs via Reedham. All services are operated by Greater Anglia. There are proposals to run a wider variety of direct services from Yarmouth to London Liverpool Street, Stansted Airport, and Peterborough from 2025. Carriage sidings New sidings were provided at the western end of the station to cope with the additional services operating into the station following the closure of the M&GN system. It is a crescent-shaped site between the A47 road and Wherryman's Way at the northernmost point of the River Yare about northwest of station. It had fallen out of use in the 1980s when the Norwich Crown Point depot was built. In 2010 the unused sidings were purchased by Great Yarmouth Borough Council, intended for use as a freight terminal despite the lack of rail connection to the town's port. It was hoped that 10,000 tonnes of sugar cane per week would be carried from Yarmouth to Cantley. The need to use a lorry shuttle between the docks and the rail yard, along with a £3.2 million quote for replacing the sidings at Cantley, saw the plan dropped. In May 2020, Eastern Rail Services commenced a lease with Norfolk County Council and Network