Ipswich train station

You can reach 49 stations directly from Ipswich on a weekday, without changing. The most frequent is Stowmarket, with 123 trains a day.

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• 49 direct destinations
• 161st busiest in Britain
• Staffed full time
• Step-free throughout
• 426 parking spaces
• 6 bus stops nearby

Direct trains from Ipswich

Trains a day to each station you can reach without changing, by day of the week.

and 9 more stations, each served less often.

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Lines serving Ipswich

Ipswich is on the Great Eastern Main Line. That page has the whole route, every station on it and how busy each one is.

Freight through Ipswich station, hour by hour

Freight is booked through or alongside Ipswich station on 457 paths in the week beginning 12 October 2026: 75 paths on the Wednesday, 96 paths on the Saturday and 1 path on the Sunday. 47 of them run whatever the traffic; the rest are held in the timetable and used only when there is something to move. The busiest hour is 14:00 to 15:00 on the Saturday, with 11 paths booked.

The grid counts the goods trains booked to pass in each hour of the week beginning 12 October 2026: the darker the hour, the more paths, and a dot marks an hour with at least one path that runs regardless. Engineering trains, empty stock and light engines are not counted. Across Britain only about a fifth of booked freight paths run on a given day, so a booked path is a possibility rather than a promise; the freight statistics page explains how that is measured.

Paths booked in the hournone12 to 34 to 78 to 1516 or moreone runs regardless

How busy Ipswich station is

3,371,206 passenger entries and exits in 2024-25, making it the 161st busiest station in Great Britain.

A further 761,485 passengers changed trains here without entering or leaving the station.

More journeys run between Ipswich and London Liverpool Street than any other pair: 943,520 a year. That is where passengers go, which is not always where the most trains go.

Source: Office of Rail and Road, Estimates of station usage, 2024-25. Estimated from ticket sales.

Sundays

Sunday is a different railway here: 39 stations instead of 49, a drop of about 20%. Saturday runs to 43.

Nearest other stations

• Derby Road 1.6 miles
• Westerfield 2.3 miles
• Wrabness 7.7 miles
• Woodbridge 7.9 miles
• Mistley 7.9 miles

Closed stations nearby

Former stations within 8 km of Ipswich, from Wikidata. They are on the map under Closed & former stations.

• Ipswich Stoke Hill · 0.5 miles
• Bramford · 2.5 miles
• Bentley Church · 3.9 miles
• Orwell · 4.5 miles
• Claydon railway station (Suffolk) · 4.5 miles
• Capel · 4.6 miles

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Facilities at Ipswich station

Ipswich is staffed full time, with step-free access to the whole station.

Ticket office: Monday to Friday: 05:00 to 21:20 · Saturday: 05:00 to 21:20 · Sunday: 07:15 to 22:00

Toilets · WiFi

Parking at Ipswich station

• Station Car Park 426 spaces, 9 accessible
  £1.20 an hour, £10.00 off-peak, £11.00 a day, £44.00 a week
• Premium Bay

Cycle parking: 200 spaces (sheltered, compounds).

From National Rail's station record, last updated 30 August 2026.

Getting to Ipswich station

Ipswich station is in Ipswich, East of England, and is run by Greater Anglia.

6 bus stops are within a short walk, the nearest being Railway Station.

Sources: Office of Rail and Road (Table 6329), OpenStreetMap and NaPTAN.

Ipswich station elsewhere

• National Rail facilities, opening hours and live departures
• Realtime Trains every train calling today, to the minute
• Wikipedia the station's history
• OpenStreetMap the map data this page is built from

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