Brampton | |
Symbol Location: | gb |
Symbol: | rail |
Borough: | Redisham, East Suffolk |
Country: | England |
Coordinates: | 52.3954°N 1.5437°W |
Grid Name: | Grid reference |
Manager: | Abellio Greater Anglia |
Platforms: | 1 |
Code: | BRP |
Classification: | DfT category F1 |
Original: | East Suffolk Railway |
Pregroup: | Great Eastern Railway |
Postgroup: | London and North Eastern Railway |
Years: | 4 December 1854 |
Events: | Opened as Brampton |
Years1: | 15 May 1858 |
Events1: | closed |
Years2: | 1 June 1859 |
Events2: | opened |
Years3: | 1 June 1928 |
Events3: | Renamed Brampton (Suffolk) |
Footnotes: | Passenger statistics from the Office of Rail and Road |
Brampton railway station is on the East Suffolk Line in the east of England, serving the villages of Brampton, Redisham and surrounding hamlets in Suffolk. It is 35chain70chain down the line from and 104chain49chain measured from London Liverpool Street; it is situated between and . It is commonly suffixed as Brampton (Suffolk) in order to distinguish it from the station of the same name in Cumbria.
Brampton and the line typically sees one train per hour in each direction between Ipswich and . It is managed by Abellio Greater Anglia, which also operates all the trains.[1]
The railway line between Halesworth and was opened by the East Suffolk Railway (ESR) on 4 December 1854,[2] and the station at Brampton was opened on the same day.[3]
The ESR was absorbed by the Eastern Counties Railway in 1859, which in turn was amalgamated with other railways to form the Great Eastern Railway (GER) in 1862.[4] The GER's successor, the London and North Eastern Railway, added the county suffix "Brampton (Suffolk)" on 1 June 1928.
The station featured in 'No Trace of Tracy', the fourth episode of the first series of Jonathan Creek.
the typical Monday-Sunday off-peak service at Brampton is as follows:
One weekday early-morning train is extended through to and there is a return from there in the evening.