Felixstowe railway station
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Felixstowe railway station is a railway station serving the town of Felixstowe in Suffolk, England. The station is the terminus of the Felixstowe Branch Line from Ipswich.
The station is served by 'One' Railway. All services are operated by diesel multiple units of Classes 153, 156 and occasionally 170.
When Felixstowe was a frequented destination for day trippers, this was a thriving railway station. In the 1940s you might up to 25,000 people went through the station, and trains ran straight through from Liverpool Street. When day tripping declined and the motor car took over, and Felixstowe Docks expanded the passenger trains competed for use of the lines with freightliners, the station turned mostly into a car park.
The current station is the other side of the carpack of the original station, which is now Great Eastern Square, a shopping center. This had multiple platforms, where passengers from Ipswich could change for a train to Felixstowe Beach Station and Felixstowe Pier.
External links
- [Train times] and [station information] for Felixstowe railway station from National Rail
- [Street map] and [aerial photo] of Felixstowe railway station from Multimap.com
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