The station was on the Midland and Great Northern Joint Railway.
[1] The Lynn & Sutton Bridge Railway was authorised on 6 August 1861, to build a line between those points.
[2] It was opened between King's Lynn and Sutton Bridge in November 1864; passenger trains began on 1 March 1866.
[4] The station at South Lynn was opened on 1 January 1886 along with other improvements in the area.
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