Lowestoft railway station

Lowestoft
Lowestoft railway station
General information
Location	Lowestoft, East Suffolk England
Grid reference	TM547928
Managed by	Greater Anglia
Platforms	3 (numbered 2, 3 and 4)
Other information
Station code	LWT
Classification	DfT category C2
History
Original company	Norfolk Railway
Pre-grouping	Eastern Counties Railway Great Eastern Railway
Post-grouping	London and North Eastern Railway Eastern Region of British Railways
Key dates
1 July 1847	Opened as Lowestoft
1855	Rebuilt
1 October 1903	Renamed Lowestoft Central
3 May 1971	Renamed Lowestoft
Passengers
2018/19	0.438 million
2019/20	0.406 million
2020/21	0.103 million
Interchange	1,837
2021/22	0.355 million
Interchange	7,307
2022/23	0.397 million
Interchange	9,046
Notes Passenger statistics from the Office of Rail and Road

Lowestoft railway station (formerly Lowestoft Central) serves the town of Lowestoft, Suffolk. It is the eastern terminus of the East Suffolk Line from Ipswich and is one of two eastern termini of the Wherry Lines from Norwich (the other being Great Yarmouth). Lowestoft is 23 miles 41 chains (37.8 km) down the line from Norwich and 48 miles 75 chains (78.8 km) measured from Ipswich; it is the easternmost station on the National Rail network in the United Kingdom.^[1][2]

The station is currently managed by Greater Anglia, which also operates all of the trains that call. Services are typically formed of Class 755 FLIRT trains.

According to Office of Rail Regulation usage figures for 2010/11, Lowestoft was the fourth-busiest station in Suffolk, after Ipswich, Stowmarket and Bury St Edmunds.^[3] Until the late 1960s, the station was served more frequently, with regular express trains for holidaymakers in the summer to and from London Liverpool Street and local services to Great Yarmouth. As part of Greater Anglia’s latest franchising agreement in 2016, direct services between Lowestoft and London will return; however, there are currently "no indications of when services may be introduced".^[4]