Needham Market railway station

Needham Market
Location
Place	Needham Market
Local authority	Mid Suffolk
Operations
Station code	NMT
Managed by	National Express East Anglia
Number of platforms	2
Live arrivals/departures and station information from National Rail Enquiries
Annual rail passenger usage
2004/05 *	16,237
2005/06 *	25,472
2006/07 *	37,074
2007/08 *	43,987
2008/09 *	53,874
2009/10 *	58,054
History
1846 1967 1971	First opened Closed Reopened & renamed
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* Annual passenger usage based on sales of tickets in stated financial year(s) which end or originate at Needham Market from Office of Rail Regulation statistics. Please note: methodology may vary year on year.
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Needham Market is a railway station serving the town of Needham Market in Suffolk, England. The station is located on the Great Eastern Main Line from London Liverpool Street to Norwich.

The station is served by National Express East Anglia.

History

The station was opened as Needham by the Ipswich and Bury Railway in 1846. The main building ("one of the best in East Anglia" - Biddle) was designed in a grand Jacobean style with decorative brickwork by Frederick Barnes and was completed by the contractor, Daniel Revitt, in 1849. It was very slightly simplified, and the platforms rebuilt, by the London and North Eastern Railway. The station was closed to passengers by the Eastern Region of British Railways in 1967 but reopened as Needham Market in 1971. The main building, not now in railway use, is Grade II listed and was restored in 2000 by Spacia Ltd, being given an award in the 2002 National Railway Heritage Awards.^[1][2]

Train Services

The following services currently call at Needham Market:

Operator	Route	Material	Frequency
NXEA	Cambridge - Dullingham - Newmarket - Kennett - Bury St Edmunds - Thurston - Elmswell - Stowmarket - Needham Market - Ipswich	Class 170	1x per hour

Preceding station	National Rail			Following station
Stowmarket		National Express East Anglia Ipswich to Cambridge		Ipswich
Historical railways
Stowmarket Line and station open		Great Eastern Railway Eastern Union Railway		Claydon Line open, station closed

References

1. ^ Biddle, Gordon (2003). Britain's Historic Railway Buildings. Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-866247-5. 
2. ^ Sore, Ray (January 1999). "The railway at Needham (Market)". Great Eastern Journal (97): 3–13. 

External links

• Train times and station information for Needham Market railway station from National Rail
• Images of England entry

Coordinates: 52°09′11″N 1°03′19″E / 52.15306°N 1.05528°E / 52.15306; 1.05528