Eccles Road railway station

Eccles Road
Location
Place	East Harling
Local authority	Breckland
Operations
Station code	ECS
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 *	2,358
2005/06 *	3,714
2006/07 *	2,322
2007/08 *	1,643
History
30 July 1845	Opened
18 April 1966	Closed to freight
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A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z
* Annual passenger usage based on sales of tickets in stated financial year(s) which end or originate at Eccles Road from Office of Rail Regulation statistics.
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Eccles Road railway station is a rural railway station in the English county of Norfolk. It is served by local services operated by East Midlands Trains and National Express East Anglia on the Breckland Line from Norwich to Peterborough and Cambridge. The station is unstaffed and has two platforms adjacent to a level crossing. This crossing is still manually controlled. A signal box stands across the road from the west bound platform.

The station takes its name from the now abandoned original village of Eccles that was located a mile to the South of the station. The church, Eccles St Mary, still stands and is one of 124 existing round-tower churches in Norfolk. In the 1990s, a new village was built immediately adjacent to the station, and this now bears the names of Eccles. This makes the 'Road' in the station name an anachronism.

The station is situated in the civil parish of Quidenham, about 2 miles (3 km) north of the village of Quidenham, and 1 mile (1.5 km) north-east of Snetterton Motor Racing Circuit.^[1]

Service

Currently, Eccles Road sees 2 services per day in each direction. Morning services operate Eastbound to Norwich at 0712 and 0802, services are operated by East Midlands Trains and National Express East Anglia, respectively.

In the Afternoon East Midlands Trains operate a 1614 service to Ely, Peterborough and Liverpool Lime Street. National Express East Anglia then operate a 1803 service to Cambridge.

There is no Sunday service.

References

Eccles St Mary

1. ^ Ordnance Survey (1999). OS Explorer Map 230 - Diss & Harleston. ISBN 978-0-319-21862-4.

External links

• Map sources for Eccles Road railway station.

• Train times and station information for Eccles Road railway station from National Rail
• Website with photos of Eccles St Mary, a round-tower church

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Coordinates: 52°28′14″N 0°58′11″E / 52.47062°N 0.96961°E / 52.47062; 0.96961