Licensees :
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JOHN THROWER age 51 in 1851	1851 - 1861
Fine of £5, including costs, for having house open at 12 o'clock on the morning of Sunday 5th June 1853. Further fined £5, including costs, for refusing to admit a policeman.
Mrs SARAH THROWER	06.07.1863 - 1869
Mrs SARAH THROWER (At the REFRESHMENT ROOMS)	1869
WILLIAM FILBEE	1869 - 1877
JOHN FRIDAY FENN See opposite	1879 - 1892
JAMES FULLER Died 1903	11.10.1893 - 1903
Mrs MARIA SARAH FULLER	08.07.1903 - 1909
FREDERICK WILLIAM STURGEON	10.03.1909
On Wednesday 10th February 1909, the renewal of licence was postponed owing to the police Superintendent having a case against the tenant in preparation.
HENRY ROUSE	1911 - 1916
Miss EDITH HELENE ROUSE Daughter of Henry - Temporary transfer whilst he was away on service. Confirmed 11.01.1916	13.10.1915
HENRY ROUSE Died 18th January 1923 (ex member of the Royal Artillery to retirement 1901 - First Class Master Gunner.)	1918 - 1923
Miss EDITH HELENE ROUSE Stepdaughter of Henry Rouse	14.02.1923  - 03.1931+
Mr. & Mrs. W. G. SMITH (Edith Smith 1937)	by 12.1933 - 1938
.Mrs. H. BLOOMFIELD (?) (Of the Railway Inn, provided a subscription to the Waveney Valley Spitfire Fund, November 1940.)	1940
GEORGE & ELSIE HUGGINS See below	01.12.1949 to 02.10.1986
Mr & Mrs BEALES	03.10.1986
DAVID BROWN	by 01.1988 - 1989
CHRIS BROWNING & CLAIRE WILLIAMS	by 1995 - 1998
TARA & CHRISTOPHER BROWNING	by 2004
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George Huggins, junior was landlord of the Sun, Diss, from 1932 to 1942 when he was "called up" in the Second World War. He took on the Railway in 1949.

Mr. G. Huggins was a member of the Tivetshall Railway Hotel bowls team from at least 1952 onwards.

He retired from the Railway Hotel in 1986 when aged 84.

George Huggins died 1991
(Funeral May 1991)

Also as the RAILWAY HOTEL & Posting House.

For Sale by Auction Tuesday 7th 1863.
Described as a Modern and well-built Public House commandingly situated at the junction of the Great Eastern and Waveney Valley Railways.
Immediate Possession available.

Sarah Thrower was given notice to quit by the executors of the will of the late Richard Bullard.  She had to quit the house on 25th August 1868 and would be liable to costs if she did not sign the necessary documents for the transfer of licence.

On Tuesday 24th August 1869, Mr. Carlos Cooper made an application on behalf of Mrs Sarah Thrower for a spirit licence for the STATION HOTEL. The request was refused in consequence of the informality of the notice. The application for renewal of the beer licence was adjourned.

(Note : In 1869 both the Railway Tavern and the Station Refreshment Rooms are given under separate entries.)

On Wednesday 26th August 1874 William Filbee, landlord of the RAILWAY TAVERN applied for a new licence for a new house, close to Tivetshall Station,  to be called the RAILWAY HOTEL. The application was granted.

Mr. Fuller obtained a licence extension of one hour on Wednesday 28th September 1898 in order to allow the festive gathering of the Diss Cycling Club on 4th October 1898.

No change recommended at the First Joint Committee Meeting of Bullards and Steward & Patteson 29th May 1962.
Sales then reported as
182 barrels.