Thurston railway station

Thurston
Location
Place	Thurston
Local authority	Mid Suffolk
Coordinates	52°15′00″N 0°48′31″E / 52.25°N 0.8086°E / 52.25; 0.8086Coordinates: 52°15′00″N 0°48′31″E / 52.25°N 0.8086°E / 52.25; 0.8086
Operations
Station code	TRS
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 *	14,039
2005/06 *	19,023
History
Opened 1846 (1846)
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* Annual passenger usage based on sales of tickets in stated financial year(s) which end or originate at Thurston from Office of Rail Regulation statistics.
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Thurston railway station serves the village of Thurston in Suffolk, England. The station, and all trains serving it, are operated by National Express East Anglia.

It is served primarily by local services between Ipswich and Cambridge.

It was opened by the Ipswich and Bury Railway in 1846 and the main building (Grade II listed and no longer in railway use) was designed by Frederick Barnes in the Jacobean style using decorative brickwork and requiring three stories to reach from ground level to the platforms on an embankment; there is an original bridge over the road adjacent.^[1][2]

According to the Official Handbook of Stations the following classes of traffic were being handled at this station in 1956: G, P, F, L, H, C and there was a 1 ton 10 cwt crane. H Clarke & Son had a private siding.^[3]

References

1. ^ Biddle, Gordon (2003). Britain's Historic Railway Buildings. Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-866247-5. 
2. ^ "Thurston, Suffolk". Great Eastern Journal (103): 28–34. July 2000. 
3. ^ Official Handbook of Stations, British Transport Commission, 1956.

External links

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

• Thurston station on navigable 1946 O.S. map