Eccles Road railway station

Eccles Road
General information
Location	Quidenham, Breckland England
Grid reference	TM018900
Managed by	Greater Anglia
Platforms	2
Other information
Station code	ECS
Classification	DfT category F2
Key dates
30 July 1845	Opened
18 April 1966	Closed to freight
Passengers
2019/20	2,390
2020/21	296
2021/22	1,276
2022/23	1,830
2023/24	1,568
Notes Passenger statistics from the Office of Rail and Road

Eccles Road railway station is on the Breckland line in the east of England, serving the villages of Eccles, Quidenham and Wilby in Norfolk. The line runs between Cambridge in the west and Norwich in the east.

Eccles Road is situated between Harling Road and Attleborough, 104 miles 36 chains (168.1 km) from London Liverpool Street via Ely. The station is managed by Greater Anglia, which also operates most of the services calling at the station. Some East Midlands Railway also stop at Eccles Road.

The station takes its name from being outside of the now abandoned original village of Eccles^[1] although the church Eccles St. Mary still stands and is one of 124 original round-tower churches in Norfolk. A new settlement, also called Eccles, has developed around the station. The station is situated in the civil parish of Quidenham, about 2 miles (3 km) north of that village, and 1 mile (1.5 km) north-east of Snetterton Motor Racing Circuit.^[2]

The station is unstaffed and has two platforms, adjacent to a level crossing. Wooden level crossing gates used to be opened and closed manually by a signaller in the local signal box, which is dated 1883.^{[citation needed]} However, in 2012 the signal box was closed and the crossing was renewed with barriers controlled from Cambridge. The redundant signal box still stands across the road from the westbound (Cambridge) platform (as of 2024).