A memorial has been set up to a Suffolk station that was demolished nearly 20 years ago and was a popular stop for tourists in the town's heyday.
Every year, a wreath is left at the site of the former Felixstowe Beach station in Beach Station Road commemorating the demolition of the station at Easter 2004.
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This year, resident Mike Ninnmey and former mayor Harry Dangerfield have placed the wreath, which includes a notice that tells the story of the events leading up to the demolition.
A second notice laments that the then Suffolk Coastal District Council did not implement a six month stop notice for the work and cites the reason being that the council was concerned about the impact on future projects for the site.
Initially, a resident stopped the station from being demolished on Mothering Sunday after revealing that the correct procedures had not been followed, so the site owners pledged to give three days' notice should the station be demolished.
A notice of demolition was posted at the station on Good Friday and the work was carried out on Easter Sunday.
Mr Ninnmey said the station could have been retained for community use and he was concerned it was part of a trend in which public transport was being lost.
He added: "If you go and look at that site, it is just a desert. It has been left with rubbish growing out of it. It is just very sad. It could have been a very good community asset. That is why people are upset."
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Beach Station was opened in 1877, as the resort’s first railway station just yards from the beach and brought thousands of tourists to enjoy a day by the sea until it fell victim to the Beeching cuts of the 1960s.
Colonel George Tomline had built it as part of his vision for the development of the southern part of the town.
Mr Ninnmey added: "There are an awful lot of widowed people who don't have transport for whom access to public transport would be a godsend and there really isn't any."
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