Station code SUY DfT category F1 Number of platforms 1 | Grid reference TL876410 Managed by Abellio Greater Anglia 2011/12 0.314 million | |
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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.
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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 which included the closure of the Stour Valley line on and from 6 March 1967.
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: