Ingham railway station was a railway station in Ingham,

Suffolk Suffolk () is a ceremonial county of England in East Anglia. It borders Norfolk to the north, Cambridgeshire to the west and Essex to the south; the North Sea lies to the east. The county town is Ipswich; other important towns include Lowes ...

which was located was on the route between

Thetford Thetford is a market town and civil parish in the Breckland District of Norfolk, England. It is on the A11 road between Norwich and London, just east of Thetford Forest. The civil parish, covering an area of , in 2015 had a population of 24,340 ...

and

Bury St Edmunds Bury St Edmunds (), commonly referred to locally as Bury, is a historic market town, market, cathedral town and civil parish in Suffolk, England.OS Explorer map 211: Bury St.Edmunds and Stowmarket Scale: 1:25 000. Publisher:Ordnance Survey – ...

History

The railway line between

and

was proposed by the

Bury St Edmunds and Thetford Railway The Bury St Edmunds and Thetford Railway (B&TR) built the Thetford to Bury St Edmunds line from Thetford to Bury St Edmunds with assistance from the Thetford and Watton Railway. The railway was authorised on 5 July 1873 and opened on 1 March 1876. ...

(B&TR) and authorised on 5 July 1865; but the company had problems in raising the necessary money. After assistance was given by the

Thetford and Watton Railway Thetford is a market town and civil parish in the Breckland District of Norfolk, England. It is on the A11 road between Norwich and London, just east of Thetford Forest. The civil parish, covering an area of , in 2015 had a population of 24,34 ...

(T&WR, see

Bury and Thetford (Swaffham Branch) The Bury and Thetford (Swaffham Branch), also known as the Crab and Winkle Line, was a railway line in England. It was formed of the Watton and Swaffham Railway, founded in 1866 as an independent venture by the Thetford and Watton Railway Compan ...

), the plan was modified, and instead of running to the main station at , a curve was built so that T&WR trains from could run directly to the Bury St Edmunds line without reversing at Thetford. The B&TR line between and was opened on 1 March 1876. The B&TR was purchased by 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 1878. Trains on the B&TR were operated by the T&WR until 1879, when operation was taken over by the GER; after this, trains from Bury began to run to Thetford; the east to south curve at Thetford Bridge was not used after 1880. Thetford Bridge was then the last station before . The station was closed to passenger traffic on 8 June 1953 although goods traffic lingered on for a few years before withdrawal on 24 June 1960. The station had a single platform with a ticket office and a small goods yard. Disused railway bridge, Ingham Suffolk

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Ingham station on navigable 1946 O. S. map
Disused railway stations in Suffolk Former Great Eastern Railway stations Railway stations in Great Britain opened in 1876 Railway stations in Great Britain closed in 1953 Borough of St Edmundsbury {{EastEngland-railstation-stub