Brampton railway station is on the East Suffolk Line in the

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, serving the villages of

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and surrounding hamlets in

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. It is down the line from and measured from

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; it is situated between and . It is commonly suffixed as Brampton (Suffolk) in order to distinguish it from the station of the same name in Cumbria. Brampton and the line is served by one train per hour in each direction between Ipswich and . It is managed by

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, which also operates all the trains.

History

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The railway line between Halesworth and was opened by the

East Suffolk Railway The East Suffolk line is a railway in East Anglia with a long history. Early railways In 1836, the Eastern Counties Railway (ECR) was authorised to construct a line from London to Great Yarmouth, passing through Colchester, Ipswich, and Eye. This ...

(ESR) on 4 December 1854, and the station at Brampton was opened on the same day. The ESR was absorbed by the

Eastern Counties Railway The Eastern Counties Railway (ECR) was an English railway company incorporated in 1836 intended to link London with Ipswich via Colchester, and then extend to Norwich and Yarmouth. Construction began in 1837 on the first at the London end. Co ...

in 1859, which in turn was amalgamated with other railways to form the

Great Eastern Railway The Great Eastern Railway (GER) was a pre-grouping British railway company, whose main line linked London Liverpool Street to Norwich and which had other lines through East Anglia. The company was grouped into the London and North Eastern R ...

(GER) in 1862. The GER's successor, the

London and North Eastern Railway The London and North Eastern Railway (LNER) was the second largest (after London, Midland and Scottish Railway, LMS) of the "Big Four (British railway companies), Big Four" railway companies created by the Railways Act 1921 in Britain. It ope ...

, added the county suffix "(Suffolk)" on 1 June 1928. The station featured in "No Trace of Tracy", the fourth episode of the first series of ''

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Services

the typical Monday-Sunday off-peak service at Brampton is as follows: One weekday early-morning train is extended through to and there is a return from there in the evening.

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