Disused railway lines and closed stations in Suffolk

107 miles of disused railway
60 closed stations
25 stations open today
22 named lost lines

Suffolk has 107 miles of disused railway and 60 closed stations, against 25 stations still open today. More stations have closed here than remain: 2.4 lost for every one still served. The longest lost line is the Mid-Suffolk Light Railway, with 20 miles of its route inside Suffolk.

See Suffolk’s lost railways on the map

The map opens on the county with the disused lines and closed stations drawn over today’s network. Tap any closed station for its history, or any grey line for its name.

What is left of it

The 107 miles of lost railway in Suffolk break down as 69 miles with the track lifted and the trackbed still traceable, 36 miles built over or ploughed out, with little or no trace left and 2.5 miles with track still in place but no trains. These are OpenStreetMap’s own distinctions, made by the people who surveyed each stretch, so a line can appear under more than one state along its length.

Lost railway lines in Suffolk

22 named lines with disused track in the county, longest stretch first. The mileage is the part inside Suffolk; a line crossing the border is counted on both sides.

Line	Miles in county
Mid-Suffolk Light Railway	20
Long Melford-Bury St Edmunds Branch Line	15
Stour Valley Railway	13
Thetford to Bury St Edmunds Line	9.7
Hadleigh Branch	6.4
Framlingham Branch	5.6
Cambridge Fordham and Mildenhall Line	5.2
Southwold Railway	4.0
Yarmouth–Lowestoft Line	3.7
Aldeburgh Branch	3.3
Mellis to Eye Line	2.8
Shelford to Haverhill via Bartlow Line	2.1
Oulton Broad South to Lowestoft South Line	1.8
Sudbury and Thetford Line	1.7
Snape Branch	1.5
Colne Valley and Halstead Railway	1.2
Yarmouth–Beccles line	1.2
Haverhill to Long Melford Branch	0.9
Chippenham Old Curve to Snailwell Junction	0.7
RAF Barnham	0.5
Waveney Valley Line	0.5
Ipswich Docks Branch	0.4

Closed railway stations in Suffolk

All 60 closed and former stations in Suffolk, A to Z. Each name opens the map on the station; the Wikipedia link, where there is one, has its history.

Stations still open in Suffolk

25 stations in Suffolk still have a train service. The busiest are Ipswich (3.4 million a year), Stowmarket (975,908 a year), Bury St Edmunds (929,244 a year), Lowestoft (468,156 a year) and Newmarket (374,156 a year). Every one has its own page, with the stations you can reach from it directly and how often the trains run: see the A to Z of stations.

Lost railways nearby

Norfolk, Essex and Cambridgeshire.

About these figures

The disused lines are the stretches OpenStreetMap records as disused, abandoned, razed or dismantled railway, measured segment by segment and given to the county each segment lies in. The closed stations are Wikidata’s record of British railway stations no longer in service, kept where they are not within a few hundred metres of a station still open. County boundaries are today’s ceremonial counties, with unitary authorities folded into the county they sit in, from the Office for National Statistics (Open Government Licence v3.0; contains OS data © Crown copyright and database right 2024). Historic county lines were different, and a closed station a mile over the border is on the neighbouring page.

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