![]() Lowestoft railway station | |||||
General information | |||||
Location | Lowestoft, East Suffolk England | ||||
Grid reference | TM547928 | ||||
Managed by | Greater Anglia | ||||
Platforms | 3 (numbered 2, 3 and 4) | ||||
Other information | |||||
Station code | LWT | ||||
Classification | DfT category C2 | ||||
History | |||||
Original company | Norfolk Railway | ||||
Pre-grouping | Eastern Counties Railway Great Eastern Railway | ||||
Post-grouping | London and North Eastern Railway Eastern Region of British Railways | ||||
Key dates | |||||
1 July 1847 | Opened as Lowestoft | ||||
1855 | Rebuilt | ||||
1 October 1903 | Renamed Lowestoft Central | ||||
3 May 1971 | Renamed Lowestoft | ||||
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Interchange | 1,837 | ||||
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Lowestoft railway station (formerly Lowestoft Central) serves the town of Lowestoft, Suffolk. It is the eastern terminus of the East Suffolk Line from Ipswich and is one of two eastern termini of the Wherry Lines from Norwich (the other being Great Yarmouth). Lowestoft is 23 miles 41 chains (37.8 km) down the line from Norwich and 48 miles 75 chains (78.8 km) measured from Ipswich; it is the easternmost station on the National Rail network in the United Kingdom.[1][2]
The station is currently managed by Greater Anglia, which also operates all of the trains that call. Services are typically formed of Class 755 FLIRT trains.
According to Office of Rail Regulation usage figures for 2010/11, Lowestoft was the fourth-busiest station in Suffolk, after Ipswich, Stowmarket and Bury St Edmunds.[3] Until the late 1960s, the station was served more frequently, with regular express trains for holidaymakers in the summer to and from London Liverpool Street and local services to Great Yarmouth. As part of Greater Anglia’s latest franchising agreement in 2016, direct services between Lowestoft and London will return; however, there are currently "no indications of when services may be introduced".[4]