Somerleyton | |
Symbol Location: | gb |
Symbol: | rail |
Borough: | Somerleyton, East Suffolk |
Country: | England |
Grid Name: | Grid reference |
Manager: | Greater Anglia |
Platforms: | 2 |
Code: | SYT |
Classification: | DfT category F2 |
Original: | Norfolk Railway |
Pregroup: | Great Eastern Railway |
Postgroup: | London and North Eastern Railway |
Years: | 1 July 1847 |
Events: | Opened |
Footnotes: | Passenger statistics from the Office of Rail and Road |
Somerleyton railway station is on the Wherry Lines in the east of England, serving the village of Somerleyton, Suffolk. It is 18miles down the line from on the route to, and is less than 2miles from Somerleyton Hall on foot. Its three-letter station code is SYT.[1]
The station is managed by Greater Anglia, which also operates all of the trains that call.
In The Rings of Saturn, the author W. G. Sebald describes travelling by train from Norwich and crossing the line to walk to Somerleyton Hall.
the typical Monday-Saturday off-peak service at Somerleyton is as follows: