Beccles railway station
Beccles 
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| Location | |
| Place | Beccles |
| Local authority | Waveney |
| Coordinates | 52°27′31″N 1°34′11″E / 52.4586°N 1.5697°ECoordinates: 52°27′31″N 1°34′11″E / 52.4586°N 1.5697°E |
| Grid reference | TM426904 |
| Operations | |
| Station code | BCC |
| Managed by | Abellio Greater Anglia |
| Owned by | Network Rail |
| Number of platforms | 2 |
| DfT category | F1 |
| Live arrivals/departures, station information and onward connections from National Rail Enquiries |
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| Annual rail passenger usage* | |
| 2011/12 |
 78,822 |
| 2012/13 |
 85,040 |
| 2013/14 |
0.101 million |
| 2014/15 |
0.105 million |
| 2015/16 |
0.109 million |
| History | |
| Original company | East Suffolk Railway |
| Pre-grouping | Great Eastern Railway |
| Post-grouping | London and North Eastern Railway |
| 4 December 1854 | Opened |
| 31 January 1968 | Closed to freight |
| 10 December 2012 | Passing loop opened |
| National Rail – UK railway stations | |
| * Annual estimated passenger usage based on sales of tickets in stated financial year(s) which end or originate at Beccles from Office of Rail and Road statistics. Methodology may vary year on year. | |
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Beccles railway station is on the East Suffolk Line in the east of England, serving the town of Beccles, Suffolk. It is 109 miles 11 chains (175.6 km) down-line from London Liverpool Street via Ipswich, and is situated between Brampton and Oulton Broad South stations. Its three-letter station code is BCC.
It is managed by Abellio Greater Anglia, which also operates all trains that call.
The East Suffolk Railway opened in 1854 operating as far as Halesworth, and the line was then extended to Ipswich and Yarmouth Vauxhall in 1859. The Beccles to Lowestoft line opened in the same year. The Waveney Valley Line from Tivetshall on the Great Eastern Main Line reached Beccles in 1863, making the town an important junction on the expanding Great Eastern Railway network.
The Waveney Valley Line closed to passengers in 1954 and the Yarmouth-Beccles Line closed to passengers in 1959. The Waveney Valley Line was then closed to freight traffic in 1963. The engine shed was demolished in 2006.
Work began in early 2010 to develop a passing loop at Beccles to allow services to operate hourly on the single-track line. The lack of a double-track to allow trains to pass north of Saxmundham had previously made this frequency of service impossible.
By March 2010 the single track at Beccles was renewed with continuously welded rail and concrete sleepers. The track was also realigned from the southern approach to the station to allow room for the loop. The old track was lifted and placed alongside the disused platform and disposed of in late 2010. By March 2012 work had started to build the passing loop and by May of that year new turnout points were in place and work had begun on redeveloping the disused island platform. The old trackbed had also been removed.
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