Westerfield railway station 2.62

Westerfield railway station is on a branch line off the Great Eastern Main Line, in the East of England, serving the village of Westerfield, Suffolk. It is 3mi east of and 72mi down-line from London Liverpool Street. It is situated at a junction of the Felixstowe Branch Line to and the East Suffolk Line to. Its three-letter station code is WFI.The station was opened in 1859 and is located on the south side of the small village of Westerfield. Patronage has never been high and it may be the fact that its location as a junction of two branches has been partly responsible for keeping it open. Notwithstanding its low usage, a report commissioned by Suffolk County Council reported that 25,384 people lived in the catchment area for the station.Westerfield station is currently managed by Abellio Greater Anglia, which also operates all trains serving the station. Services are typically formed of, and trains. The Felixstowe line sees an hourly shuttle service to Ipswich and there is an hourly service to and from Lowestoft which was introduced in 2012 following the completion of a passing loop at. Behind the Ipswich-bound platform the original platform and station building of the Felixstowe Dock & Railway Company can still be seen.HistoryIn about 1847, the Ipswich & Bury Railway had secured the rights to build a line from to but construction was delayed for financial reasons. The Ipswich & Bury Railway was absorbed by the Eastern Union Railway in 1847, which gathered a number of the smaller railway concerns together.