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Somerleyton railway station is on the
Wherry Lines The Wherry Lines are railway branch lines in the East of England, linking to and . There are 14 stations including the three termini. They form part of Network Rail Strategic Route 7, SRS 07.11 and are classified as a rural line. The line ...
in the
east of England The East of England is one of the nine official regions of England. This region was created in 1994 and was adopted for statistics purposes from 1999. It includes the ceremonial counties of Bedfordshire, Cambridgeshire, Essex, Hertfordshire ...
, serving the village of
Somerleyton Somerleyton is a village and former civil parish in the north of the English county of Suffolk. It is north-west of Lowestoft and south-west of Great Yarmouth in the East Suffolk district. The village is closely associated with Somerleyton Ha ...
, Suffolk. It is down the line from on the route to , and is less than from
Somerleyton Hall Somerleyton Hall is a country house and estate near Somerleyton and Lowestoft in Suffolk, England owned and lived in by Hugh Crossley, 4th Baron Somerleyton, originally designed by John Thomas. The hall is Grade II* listed on the National Heri ...
on foot. Its three-letter station code is SYT.Ordnance Survey (2005). ''OS Explorer Map OL40 - The Broads''. . The station is managed by Greater Anglia, which also operates all of the trains that call. In ''
The Rings of Saturn ''The Rings of Saturn'' (german: Die Ringe des Saturn: Eine englische Wallfahrt - An English Pilgrimage) is a 1995 novel by the German writer W. G. Sebald. Its first-person narrative arc is the account by a nameless narrator (who resembles the ...
'', the author W. G. Sebald describes travelling by train from Norwich and crossing the line to walk to Somerleyton Hall.


Services

the typical Monday-Saturday off-peak service at Somerleyton is as follows:


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Railway stations in Suffolk DfT Category F2 stations Former Great Eastern Railway stations Greater Anglia franchise railway stations Railway stations in Great Britain opened in 1847 Waveney District {{EastEngland-railstation-stub