Eccles Road railway station

Coordinates: 52°28′14″N 0°58′11″E / 52.47062°N 0.96961°E / 52.47062; 0.96961
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Eccles Road
Greater Anglia
Platforms2
Other information
Station codeECS
ClassificationDfT category F2
Key dates
30 July 1845Opened
18 April 1966Closed to freight
Passengers
2018/19Increase 2,952
2019/20Decrease 2,390
2020/21Decrease 296
2021/22Increase 1,276
2022/23Increase 1,830
Notes
Passenger statistics from the Office of Rail and Road

Eccles Road railway station is on the Breckland line in the east of England, serving the villages of Eccles, Quidenham and Wilby in Norfolk. The line runs between Cambridge in the west and Norwich in the east.

Eccles Road is situated between

Greater Anglia, which also operates most of the services calling at the station. Some East Midlands Railway
also stop at Eccles Road.

The station takes its name from being outside of the now abandoned original village of Eccles

Snetterton Motor Racing Circuit.[2]

The station is unstaffed and has two platforms, adjacent to a

signal box, which is dated 1883.[citation needed
] However, in 2012 the signal box was closed and the crossing was renewed with automatic barriers controlled from Cambridge. The redundant signal box stands across the road from the westbound (Cambridge) platform, and was expected to be demolished when the barriers were replaced in 2017.

History

The Bill for the Norwich & Brandon Railway (N&BR) received Royal Assent on 10 May 1844. Work started on the line in 1844 and the line and its stations were opened on 30 July 1845. The line ran from Ely to Trowse, in Norwich. The link into Norwich was delayed due to the need to build a bridge over the River Wensum that kept the river navigable. One month before the N&BR opened a Bill authorising the amalgamation of the Yarmouth & Norwich Railway with the N&BR came into effect and so Eccles Road station became a Norfolk Railway asset.[3]

Services

As of December 2019, from Monday to Saturday there are two trains per day eastbound to

Greater Anglia
.

Westbound, there are two trains per day on weekday afternoons, one operated by East Midlands Railway which calls at Harling Road, Thetford, and Ely, before reversing and continuing to Liverpool Lime Street; and the other to Cambridge, operated by Greater Anglia. On Saturday afternoons there are two westbound services to Stansted Airport via Cambridge, both operated by Greater Anglia.[4]

There is no Sunday service.

References

Eccles St Mary church
  1. ^ "Grab your ticket to ride into Norfolk by rail". 10 August 2012.
  2. ISBN 978-0-319-21862-4
    .
  3. ^ C.J. Allen [full citation needed]
  4. ^ "Timetable 10 Cambridge to Ely, Peterborough and Norwich" (PDF). Greater Anglia. 15 December 2019.

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