Felixstowe railway station

Infobox UK station
name = Felixstowe
code = FLX


manager = National Express East Anglia
locale = Felixstowe
borough = Suffolk Coastal
lowusage0405 = 156,189
lowusage0506 = 167,773
lowusage0607 = 168,258
platforms = 1
start = 1898

Felixstowe railway station is a railway station serving the town of Felixstowe in Suffolk, England. The station is the terminus of the Felixstowe Branch Line 25 km (15¾ miles) east of Ipswich.

The station is served by National Express East Anglia. All services are operated by diesel multiple units of Classes 153, 156 and occasionally 170.

When Felixstowe was a frequented destination for day trippers, this was a thriving railway station. In the 1940s up to 25,000 people might be seen passing through the station, and trains ran straight through from London Liverpool Street. When day tripping declined, the motor car took over and Felixstowe Docks expanded, the passenger trains competing for use of the lines with Freightliners, and the station was turned mostly into a car park.

The current station is the other side of the car park from the original station, originally called Felixstowe Town and now Great Eastern Square, a shopping centre. This had multiple platforms, where passengers from Ipswich could change for a train to Felixstowe Beach Station and "Felixstowe Pier". The station building was built by the Great Eastern Railway's architect W.N. Ashbee in the domestic revival style in 1898, and is a Grade II listed building. [cite book|author=Biddle, Gordon|title=Britain's Historic Railway Buildings|publisher=Oxford University Press|year=2003|isbn=0-19-866247-5]

ervice

There is an hourly service daily from Felixstowe to Ipswich, westbound. From Ipswich, passengers can connect to London Liverpool Street.

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* [http://www.saintfelix.co.uk/ St. Felix RC Parish]