Attleborough railway station

Attleborough
Location
Place	Attleborough
Local authority	Breckland, Norfolk
Operations
Station code	ATL
Managed by	National Express East Anglia
Platforms in use	2
Live arrivals/departures and station information from National Rail
Annual rail passenger usage
2004/05 *	133,370
2005/06 *	139,252
2006/07 *	154,442
2007/08 *	151,389
History
30 July 1845	Opened
12 September 1966	Closed to freight
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* Annual passenger usage based on sales of tickets in stated financial year(s) which end or originate at Attleborough from Office of Rail Regulation statistics.
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For the station in the United States, see Attleboro (MBTA station)

Attleborough railway station is a railway station serving the town of Attleborough in the English county of Norfolk. It is served by local services operated by East Midlands Trains and on the Breckland Line 16 miles (26 km) west of Norwich to Peterborough and Cambridge.

A new Ticket Office opened in 2008 as part of the National Express East Anglia 'Rural Stations Restaffing Initiative' , exactly 41 years and one week since the original was closed down. The staffing hours are 07.00 to 11.06 Monday to Friday.

History

Opened by the Norfolk Railway, then run by the Great Eastern Railway, it became part of the London and North Eastern Railway during the Grouping of 1923. The station then passed on to the Eastern Region of British Railways on nationalisation in 1948.

When Sectorisation was introduced in the 1980s, the station was served by Regional Railways until the Privatisation of British Railways.

Service

Westbound, there is typically an hourly service operated by National Express East Anglia to Cambridge (57 minutes). East Midlands Trains operate three services per day to Nottingham via Ely and Peterborough. Two of these three services continue on to Sheffield, Manchester and Liverpool Lime Street.

Eastbound, National Express East Anglia operate an hourly service to Norwich (19 minutes) and East Midlands Trains operate three services per day also to Norwich.

On Sundays, National Express East Anglia operate an hourly service to Cambridge and an hourly service to Norwich.

References

• Butt, R.V.J. (October 1995). The Directory of Railway Stations: details every public and private passenger station, halt, platform and stopping place, past and present (1st ed.). Sparkford: Patrick Stephens Ltd. ISBN 1-8526-0508-1. OCLC 60251199. 
• Jowett, Alan (2000). Jowett's Nationalised Railway Atlas (1st ed.). Penryn, Cornwall: Atlantic Transport Publishers. ISBN 0-9068-9999-0. OCLC 228266687. 
• Jowett, Alan (March 1989). Jowett's Railway Atlas of Great Britain and Ireland: From Pre-Grouping to the Present Day (1st ed.). Sparkford: Patrick Stephens Ltd. ISBN 1-8526-0086-1. OCLC 22311137. 

• Station on navigable O.S. map

External links

• Map sources for Attleborough railway station.

• Train times and station information for Attleborough railway station from National Rail

Coordinates: 52°30′51″N 1°01′16″E / 52.51428°N 1.02119°E / 52.51428; 1.02119

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