Ipswich

CRS Code	IPS
Collected date	03/07/04

A lot of my journeys in East Anglia involve Ipswich, because it provides an alternative route back to Cambridge to going via Norwich. It's also the furthest South you can travel on the Norwich main line on an Anglia Plus ranger ticket. (Quick advert for One here: the £9 day ticket lets you wander around Norfolk and Suffolk at your leisure and is fantastic value.)

The BR sign sticks out on the front of the station building:

The footbridge has windows, so this picture looking South towards the tunnel mouth is unfortunately rather blurry:

Platform 1 is a bay platform (not pictured here) for trains from Lowestoft. Platform 2:

Platforms 3 and 4 are on the island, accessed over the footbridge:

Looking North along the line, with the footbridge in view:

The secret of East Anglian electrification is revealed:

All photographs are © Alexandra Lanes You may reproduce them anywhere for any purpose. Coastline maps are reproduced from Ordnance Survey map data by permission of the Ordnance Survey © Crown copyright 2001