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Ipswich railway station

railway station in Ipswich, Suffolk, England, UK
Place Railway Station Q2003305

Facts

15 properties

Identity

Instance of
railway station

Location

Country
United Kingdom[4]
Coordinate location
🗺️ 52.051°, 1.144°
Located in the administrative territorial entity
Ipswich, Suffolk[2][3]
More facts +11
Owned by
Network Rail[9]
Adjacent station
Needham Market railway station, Westerfield railway station, Manningtree railway station, Mistley railway station[12][13][14][15]
Connecting line
Ipswich to Ely Line, Great Eastern Main Line, Felixstowe Branch Line, East Suffolk Line[5][6][7][8]
Date of official opening
1860[19]
Historic county
Suffolk[21]
Located on linear feature
Liverpool Street and Norwich Line, Liverpool Street to Trowse Lower Junction[17]
Named after
Ipswich[11]
Number of platform tracks
+4[18]
OS grid reference
TM156437[16]
Operator
Greater Anglia[10]
State of use
in use[20]
🏷️ Also known as
en IPS en Ipswich railway station en Ipswich Station de Bahnhof Ipswich fr Ipswich fr gare d’Ipswich ja イプスウィッチ駅 nl station Ipswich ro gara Ipswich zh 伊普斯維奇火車站
🔖 Identifiers · 10
Image (Wikimedia Commons)
2025 at Ipswich railway station - entrance.JPG ↗
Freebase ID
/m/05xq9p
GeoNames ID
6952875
NaPTAN stop area code
910GIPSWICH
OpenStreetMap node ID
2370148643
OpenStreetMap relation ID
2522
RailScot location ID
I/Ipswich
TIPLOC code
IPSWICH
TOID
4000000073336758
UK railway station code
IPS
📚 Sources · 1
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🔗 Connections
Adjacent station 2
Needham Market railway station, Westerfield railway station
Located in the administrative territorial entity 2
Suffolk, Ipswich
← Adjacent station 2
Needham Market railway station, Westerfield railway station
Connecting line 1
Great Eastern Main Line
Country 1
United Kingdom
Instance of 1
railway station
Named after 1
Ipswich
Operator 1
Greater Anglia
Owned by 1
Network Rail
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Summary

Ipswich railway station is a railway station[1].

Related Entities

United Kingdom

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [2] ↑ . wikidata.org.
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  10. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.
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  12. [13] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  13. [14] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  14. [15] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  15. [16] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  16. [17] ↑ . Railway Codes and Other Data: A (Hopefully) Comprehensive Listing. railwaycodes.org.uk. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  17. [18] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  18. [19] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  19. [20] ↑ . dataportal.orr.gov.uk. dataportal.orr.gov.uk. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  20. [21] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

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Rolling log of changes to this entity's Wikidata record. Values shown reflect the current state of each edited property — follow the history link to see the precise diff for any edit.

  1. 14w ago · Edward · 2026-07-30 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    OpenStreetMap node ID → 2370148643
    "Created claim: OpenStreetMap node ID: 2370148643, batch #262248"
  2. 23w ago · Yirba · 2026-05-29 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Instance of → railway station
    State of use → in use
    Adjacent station → Needham Market railway station, Westerfield railway station, Manningtree railway station +1
    Located on linear feature → Liverpool Street and Norwich Line, Liverpool Street to Trows
    + 10 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "Changed the item: QuickStatements 3.0 batch #33789: NaPTAN stop area codes (910)"
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