Shippea Hill railway station
Shippea Hill 
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Shippea Hill railway station in 2012
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| Location | |
| Place | Burnt Fen |
| Local authority | East Cambridgeshire |
| Grid reference | TL641841 |
| Operations | |
| Station code | SPP |
| 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 |
 378 |
| 2012/13 |
50 |
| 2013/14 |
12 |
| 2014/15 |
 22 |
| 2015/16 |
12 |
| History | |
| 1845 | Opened as Mildenhall Road |
| 1885 | Renamed Burnt Fen |
| 1904 | Renamed Shippea Hill |
| National Rail – UK railway stations | |
| * Annual estimated passenger usage based on sales of tickets in stated financial year(s) which end or originate at Shippea Hill from Office of Rail and Road statistics. Methodology may vary year on year. | |
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Shippea Hill railway station is on the Breckland Line in the east of England, serving the Burnt Fen area of Cambridgeshire and Suffolk. The line runs between Cambridge in the west and Norwich in the east.
Shippea Hill is a request stop situated between Ely and Lakenheath stations, 77 miles 17 chains (124.3 km) down-line from London Liverpool Street via Cambridge, in one of the few areas within Burnt Fen which rises just above sea level. The station is on the A1101 road between Littleport and Mildenhall, and is about 1.3 km from the tripoint of the counties of Norfolk, Suffolk and Cambridgeshire.
It’s hard to imagine a more desolate place to get off a train. Shipping containers for sale stand in a muddy yard behind the far platform, opposite the pitched-roof signal box, now shuttered. Otherwise the view is of field after field, some showing maize stumps, others now peat-black and ploughed.
It is one of the least-used railway stations in Britain. According to Office of Rail and Road estimates, it had just twelve passenger entries/exits in 2013/14, which made it the second least-used station in the country behind Teesside Airport, which had eight. In 2014/15, patronage went up to 22, but despite this increase, it became the least-used station in Britain, as the number at Teesside Airport increased to 32. In 2015/16, patronage fell back down to 12, and the station continued to hold the least-used title.
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