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General information
Location	Mid Suffolk
Managed by	Abellio Greater Anglia
Platforms	2
Other information
Station code	NMT
Key dates
1846	Opened as Needham
1967	Closed
1971	Reopened as Needham Market

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Needham Market railway station is on the Great Eastern Main Line (GEML) in the East of England, serving the town of Needham Market, Suffolk. It is 77 miles 7 chains (124.1 km) down the line from London Liverpool Street and is situated between Ipswich to the south and Stowmarket to the north. Its three-letter station code is NMT.

The station is currently operated by Abellio Greater Anglia, which also runs all trains serving the station. It sees regular services between Ipswich and Stowmarket, whereafter trains branch off to Cambridge via the Ipswich to Ely Line. No main line London trains call.

The station appears in Britain's 100 Best Railway Stations by Sir Simon Jenkins.

History

The station was originally opened with the name Needham by the Ipswich & Bury Railway in 1846. The main building, described as "one of the best in East Anglia" by Biddle, was designed in a grand Jacobean style with decorative brickwork by Frederick Barnes and was completed by the contractor, Daniel Revitt, in 1849. It was later slightly simplified, and the platforms rebuilt, by the London and North Eastern Railway (LNER).

It was closed to passengers by the Eastern Region of British Railways in 1967 but reopened as Needham Market in 1971. The main building, now in alternative use, is a Grade II listed building.^[1] It was restored in 2000 by Spacia Ltd, and won an award in the 2002 National Railway Heritage Awards. In April 2015 work commenced to improve the station, including the installation of an anti-slip composite fibreglass platform^[2] with in-built water management and snow-melting capabilities. However, this did not include making the London-bound platform wheelchair accessible.^[3]^[4]^[5]

Services

The following services typically call at Needham Market:

Operator	Route	Rolling stock	Frequency
Abellio Greater Anglia	Cambridge - Dullingham - Newmarket - Kennett - Bury St. Edmunds - Thurston - Elmswell - Stowmarket - Needham Market - Ipswich	Class 755	1x per hour

Preceding station		Following station
Ipswich	Abellio Greater Anglia Great Eastern Main Line	Stowmarket
Historical railways
Claydon	Great Eastern Railway Eastern Union Railway	Stowmarket

References

^ Historic England. "Details from listed building database (1253684)". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 5 April 2007.
^ Dura Composites. Needham Market Case Study. 2015.
^ http://www.nationalrail.co.uk/stations/nmt/details.html
^ Biddle, Gordon (2003). Britain's Historic Railway Buildings. Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-866247-5.
^ Sore, Ray (January 1999). "The railway at Needham (Market)". Great Eastern Journal (97): 3–13.

52°09′09″N 1°03′19″E / 52.1526°N 1.0554°E / 52.1526; 1.0554

[1] Historic England. "Details from listed building database (1253684)". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 5 April 2007.

[2] Dura Composites. Needham Market Case Study. 2015.

[3] ttp://www.nationalrail.co.uk/stations/nmt/details.html

[4] Biddle, Gordon (2003). Britain's Historic Railway Buildings. Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-866247-5.

[5] Sore, Ray (January 1999). "The railway at Needham (Market)". Great Eastern Journal (97): 3–13.

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 The station is currently operated by [[Abellio Greater Anglia]], which also runs all trains serving the station. It sees regular services between Ipswich and Stowmarket, whereafter trains branch off to {{rws|Cambridge}} via the [[Ipswich to Ely Line]]. No main line London trains call.
-[[Simon Jenkins]] names the station in his 2018 book Britain's 100 Best Railway Stations.
+The station appears in Britain's 100 Best Railway Stations by [[Sir Simon Jenkins]].
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