Eccles Road railway station
Eccles Road 
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| Location | |
| Place | Quidenham |
| Local authority | Breckland |
| Grid reference | TM018900 |
| Operations | |
| Station code | ECS |
| Managed by | Abellio Greater Anglia |
| Number of platforms | 2 |
| DfT category | F2 |
| Live arrivals/departures, station information and onward connections from National Rail Enquiries |
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| Annual rail passenger usage* | |
| 2011/12 |
 1,242 |
| 2012/13 |
 1,930 |
| 2013/14 |
2,126 |
| 2014/15 |
1,098 |
| 2015/16 |
824 |
| History | |
| 30 July 1845 | Opened |
| 18 April 1966 | Closed to freight |
| National Rail – UK railway stations | |
| * Annual estimated passenger usage based on sales of tickets in stated financial year(s) which end or originate at Eccles Road from Office of Rail and Road statistics. Methodology may vary year on year. | |
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Eccles Road railway station is on the Breckland Line in the east of England, serving the villages of Eccles, Quidenham and Wilby in Norfolk. The line runs between Cambridge in the west and Norwich in the east.
Eccles Road is situated between Harling Road and Attleborough, 104 miles 36 chains (168.1 km) down-line from London Liverpool Street via Ely. The station is managed by Abellio Greater Anglia, which also operates most of the services calling at the station. Some East Midlands Trains also stop at Eccles Road.
The station takes its name from the now abandoned original village of Eccles that was located one mile south of the station. The church Eccles St. Mary still stands and is one of 124 original round-tower churches in Norfolk. In the 1990s, a new village was built immediately adjacent to the station, and this now bears the names of Eccles. This makes the "Road" suffix in the station's name an anachronism. The station is situated in the civil parish of Quidenham, about 2 miles (3 km) north of the village of Quidenham, and 1 mile (1.5 km) north-east of Snetterton Motor Racing Circuit.
The station is unstaffed and has two platforms, adjacent to a level crossing. Wooden level crossing gates used to be opened and closed manually by a signaller in the local signal box, which is dated 1883. However, in 2012 the signal box was closed and the crossing was renewed with automatic barriers controlled from Cambridge. The redundant signal box stands across the road from the westbound (Cambridge) platform, but is expected to be demolished when the barriers are replaced in 2017.
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