Opening Ceremony of Ipswich Croft Street Railway Station, 11 June 1846 by Frederick Brett Russell
General information
Location
Ipswich, Ipswich England
Other information
Status
Disused
History
Original company
Eastern Union Railway[1]
Key dates
15 June 1846
Opened[1]
1 July 1860
Closed[1]
Ipswich Stoke Hill railway station was the northern terminus[2] of the Eastern Union Railway line from Colchester to Ipswich from its opening in June 1846 until 1860 when the present Ipswich station opened at the other end of the Stoke tunnel. It was located in Croft Street, Stoke. Trains from London terminated at the station but from November 1846 when a new line was built by the Ipswich and Bury Railway to Bury St Edmunds trains from Bury used to pass the station, stop at Halifax Junction a short distance to the south and propel back into the terminus usually using the western platform. Trains for Bury would reverse out as far as Halifax Junction before travelling north.[3]
The station was designed by Frederick Barnes who also designed a number of other early railway stations and bridges in East Anglia.[4]
The EUR and I&BR (who shared many directors, same engineer and secretary) worked as one organisation from January 1847.
For more than one hundred and twenty years after the station's closure, the site was in use as railway sidings. These consisted of a carriage and wagon works and Ipswich engine shed. Subsequently the site had its tracks removed and was redeveloped, including Bruff Road, named in honour of Peter Bruff the engineer who brought the railway to Ipswich.
Former Services
Preceding station
Disused railways
Following station
Bentley Line and station closed
Eastern Union Railway
Terminus
Bentley Church Line and station closed
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^Dewick, Tony (2002). Complete Atlas of Railway Station Names. Ian Allan. ISBN 0-7110-2798-6.
^Norman, John (23 September 2013). "Italianate design that proved a winner". East Anglian Daily Times: 45.
^Norman, John. "Ipswich Icons - the prolific architects who designed the stations on the Colchester to Ipswich line". Ipswich Star. Archant Community Media. Retrieved 23 December 2018.
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