Sudbury railway station

This article is about Sudbury railway station in Suffolk, England. For other uses, see Sudbury railway station (disambiguation).

Sudbury
265px Entrance to Sudbury railway station
Location
Place	Sudbury
Local authority	Babergh
Coordinates
Grid reference	TL876410
Operations
Station code	SUY
Managed by	Abellio Greater Anglia
Number of platforms	1
DfT category	F1
Live arrivals/departures, station information and onward connections from National Rail Enquiries
Annual rail passenger usage*
2004/05	0.237 million
2005/06	0.244 million
2006/07	0.261 million
2007/08	0.286 million
2008/09	0.285 million
2009/10	0.270 million
2010/11	0.292 million
2011/12	0.314 million
2012/13	0.326 million
2013/14	0.329 million
2014/15	0.333 million
National Rail – UK railway stations
* Annual estimated passenger usage based on sales of tickets in stated financial year(s) which end or originate at Sudbury from Office of Rail and Road statistics. Methodology may vary year on year.
UK Railways portal

Sudbury railway station is the northern terminus of the Gainsborough Line, a branch off the Great Eastern Main Line in the East of England, serving the town of Sudbury, Suffolk. It is 58 miles 34 chains (94.0 km) down-line from London Liverpool Street; the preceding station on the branch is Bures. Its three-letter station code is SUY.

The station is managed by Abellio Greater Anglia, which also operates all trains serving it. Sudbury is an unstaffed station with one platform as the line is single-track, and a self-service ticket machine.

Volunteers from Sudbury In Bloom man the station, which is annually entered into the Anglia In Bloom station competition; it won the Silver Gilt award in 2006, 2007 and 2008. It also won the Best Station Garden at the 2008 ACoRP Community Rail Awards.

History

The current station is the third in Sudbury. The first was built by the Great Eastern Railway in 1849, but that was replaced in 1865 when the line was extended to Cambridge to create the Stour Valley Railway. However, Sudbury became a terminus again following the Beeching cuts to railway services in 1967 which included the closure of the Stour Valley line.

In 1991 the station was re-sited to the edge of the town centre, to make way for the construction of the Kingfisher Leisure Centre.

Accidents and incidents

On 27 January 2006 at least four passengers were slightly injured when a Class 156 train ran into the buffer stop at Sudbury. The 6:05 pm service from Marks Tey was travelling at a speed at the time of the collision of approximately six miles per hour. An investigation determined that the driver failed to apply the brakes in a "timely and appropriate manner".

Services

The typical off-peak service is as follows:

Operator	Route	Rolling stock	Frequency
Abellio Greater Anglia	Sudbury - Bures - Chappel & Wakes Colne - Marks Tey	Class 153, Class 156	1x per hour

External links

• History page at Subterranea Britannica showing the station before and after redevelopment

Preceding station	National Rail			Following station
Bures		Abellio Greater Anglia Gainsborough Line		Terminus
	Disused railways
Bures Line and station open		Great Eastern Railway Stour Valley Railway		Long Melford Line and station closed