Anglia Railways inherited a small fleet of seven units, for local services in Suffolk and Norfolk. Services operated by these units included Ipswich to Cambridge, Peterborough, Felixstowe and Lowestoft, and Norwich to Lowestoft, Great Yarmouth and Cromer. One set was also hired to First Great Eastern for use on the Sudbury branch. Anglia Railways named its Class 153 fleet after famous local figures: 153306 - Edith Cavell 153309 - Gerard Fiennes 153311 - John Constable 153314 - Delia Smith 153322 - Benjamin Britten 153326 - Ted Ellis 153335 - Michael Palin In 2003, Anglia started to refurbish its fleet, and repaint them in Anglia Railways livery. However, only three (unit nos. 153309/322/335) were completed; In 2004, Anglia became part of the 'One' Railway franchise operated by the National Express Group (which was subsequently renamed National Express East Anglia). inheriting the fleet of seven units, for local services in Suffolk and Norfolk. Services operated by these units included Norwich to Sheringham and Great Yarmouth, Norwich to Lowestoft, they were also sometimes seen on the Ipswich to Ely Line. Britten was born in Lowestoft, Suffolk, the son of a dentist and a talented amateur musician. He showed musical gifts very early in life, and began composing prolifically as a child. He was educated at Old Buckenham Hall School in Suffolk, an all-boys prep school, and Gresham's School, Holt. In 1927, he began private lessons with Frank Bridge; he also studied, less happily, at the Royal College of Music under John Ireland, with some input from Ralph Vaughan Williams. Although ultimately held back by his parents (at the suggestion of College staff), Britten had also intended to study with Alban Berg in Vienna. Britten was a prolific juvenile composer; some 800 works and fragments precede his early published works. His first compositions to attract wide attention, however, were the Sinfonietta Op. 1, "A Hymn to the Virgin" (1930) and a set of choral variations A Boy was Born, written in 1934 for the BBC Singers.

The staff instruments in the station's safeworking room, or 'staff hut'. The small mechanical signal box is a separate building on the platform nearby, and is operated by the station employee, or by train crews when the station is unattended. For anyone who doesn't know, I will try and explain electric staff working in a few paragraphs! It is a token system for single lines. On single lines there are "crossing" locations with two or more tracks, where opposing trains can 'cross' or pass each other. Between crossing locations there is only one track ("single line"), and the purpose of token working is to ensure that there is only one train at a time on that section of track. In token working the driver of a train must be in possession of the correct token for the single line section. The token is inscribed with the names of the locations at each end of the section to identify it. The token gives the authority for a train to occupy that single line section, and it must be carried on the train while it is in that section. In electric staff working, the token is rod shaped and called a staff, and there are a number of staffs for each section. The staffs are normally held within a pair of staff "instruments", one at each end of the section. The instruments are electrically connected, and when a staff is withdrawn from one of the instruments, they both become locked and no more staffs can be withdrawn. When that staff is returned to either instrument, both instruments become free and another staff can then be withdrawn. This ensures that only one staff can be out of the pair of instruments at any one time, and so only one train can carry the staff and be authorised to enter the section at any time. Phew!