Bury St Edmunds railway station

Bury St Edmunds railway station

Infobox UK station
name = Bury St Edmunds


caption = The station entrance
manager = National Express East Anglia
locale = Bury St Edmunds
borough = St Edmundsbury
usage0405 = 0.211
usage0506 = 0.241
usage0607 = 0.275
platforms = 2
start = 1847
code = BSE

Bury St Edmunds railway station serves the town of Bury St Edmunds in Suffolk, England. The station, and all trains calling there, are operated by National Express East Anglia.

Architecture and layout

Designed by Sancton Wood (the architect also of Ipswich and Cambridge railway stations as well as many stations in Ireland, the principal of which is Heuston Station, Dublin), the station was formally inaugurated in November 1847, eleven months after the opening of the Eastern Union Railway's line from Ipswich.

The most noteworthy feature of the station, which is constructed of red brick with stone dressings, is a pair of towers (originally linked by an overall roof, removed in 1893) on either side of the tracks at the eastern end of the layout. As first built – as a terminus – the station had four tracks, although in practice only one platform was used before the line was extended to Newmarket in 1854. Today a wide space separates the two surviving through tracks, which serve Platform 1 (for trains from Ipswich) and Platform 2 (called at by those heading east). [cite book|author=Biddle, Gordon|title=Britain's Historic Railway Buildings|publisher=Oxford University Press|year=2003|isbn=0-19-866247-5] [cite journal|title=Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk|journal=Great Eastern Journal|issue=106|pages=23–9|date=2001 April]

The semi-elliptical brick arch bridge over Northgate Road to the east of the station, which like the station building is a Grade II listed building, has been credited to Frederick Barnes and Charles Russell.

Derailment

Due to the freight train derailment on a bridge near Ely in June 2007, trains to Peterborough from London (via Ipswich) were terminating at Bury St Edmunds while the bridge was rebuilt. Train services resumed on 21 December 2007.

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