Felixstowe railway station
Felixstowe 
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The original building has been converted into a shopping centre
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| Location | |
| Place | Felixstowe |
| Local authority | Suffolk Coastal |
| Coordinates | 51°58′01″N 1°21′00″E / 51.967°N 1.350°ECoordinates: 51°58′01″N 1°21′00″E / 51.967°N 1.350°E |
| Grid reference | TM302351 |
| Operations | |
| Station code | FLX |
| Managed by | Abellio Greater Anglia |
| Number of platforms | 1 |
| 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 |
 196,246 |
| 2012/13 |
210,762 |
| 2013/14 |
211,238 |
| 2014/15 |
 205,176 |
| 2015/16 |
193,776 |
| History | |
| Key dates | Opened 1898 |
| National Rail – UK railway stations | |
| * Annual estimated passenger usage based on sales of tickets in stated financial year(s) which end or originate at Felixstowe from Office of Rail and Road statistics. Methodology may vary year on year. | |
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Felixstowe railway station serves the town of Felixstowe in Suffolk, England. It is the terminus of the 11.75-mile (18.91 km) Felixstowe Branch Line from Westerfield but all trains start from Ipswich, 16.13 miles (25.96 km) distant.
It was opened by the Great Eastern Railway (GER) in 1898 as Felixstowe Town railway station but since 1967 has been the only station in the town. Trains in 2012 are operated by Abellio Greater Anglia.
The railway from Westerfield to Felixstowe was opened by the Felixstowe Pier and Railway Company on 1 May 1877. The first railway station was at Felixstowe Pier and a second was soon added at Felixstowe Beach. The railway's principal promoter, Colonel George Tomline, was criticised in the Suffolk Chronicle for building the stations where he "thinks people ought to be, rather than where people actually live". It is also claimed that the Beach station was sited there to be away from the Ordnance Hotel, owned by his rival John Chevalier Cobbold.
On 13 July 1891 Princess Augusta Victoria of Schleswig-Holstein, wife of Kaiser Wilhelm II of Germany and a relative of Queen Victoria, arrived on a train at Felixstowe Beach station. She and five of her children stayed in the town on holiday until 6 August. This gave the town a boost as a holiday resort. Although the population of the town in 1891 was only 3,507 development was increasing along the higher ground north of the Beach station. By now the railway line had been purchased by the GER which set about obtaining powers in June 1893 to divert the railway to Hamilton Road and build a station there. The new Town station was opened on 1 July 1898 by Lord Claud Hamilton, the chairman of the railway company. The direct line from Trimley to Felixstowe Beach was closed and all trains then had to reverse at the Town station before continuing their journey.
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