Westerfield railway station is on a branch line off the Great Eastern Main Line, in the East of England, serving the village of Westerfield, Suffolk. It is down the line from and measured from London Liverpool Street. It is situated at a junction of the Felixstowe Branch Line to and the East Suffolk Line to . Its three-letter station code is WFI. The station was opened in 1859 and is located on the south side of the small village of Westerfield. Patronage has never been high and it may be the fact that its location as a junction of two branches has been partly responsible for keeping it open. Notwithstanding its low usage, a report commissioned by Suffolk County Council reported that 25,384 people lived in the catchment area for the station. Westerfield station is currently managed by Greater Anglia, which also operates all trains serving the station. Services are typically formed of trains. The Felixstowe line sees an hourly shuttle service to Ipswich and there is an hourly service to and from Lowestoft which was introduced in 2012 following the completion of a passing loop at . Behind the Ipswich-bound platform the original platform and station building of the Felixstowe Dock & Railway Company can still be seen. History In about 1847, the Ipswich & Bury Railway had secured the rights to build a line from to but construction was delayed for financial reasons. The Ipswich & Bury Railway was absorbed by the Eastern Union Railway in 1847, which gathered a number of the smaller railway concerns together. The Halesworth, Beccles & Haddiscoe Railway was incorporated in 1851 and the first section of the East Suffolk Line from to was constructed by Peto Brassey & Betts. The East Suffolk Railway, which had been incorporated on 3 July 1854, took over the powers of the Halesworth, Beccles & Haddiscoe Railway and the route opened on 4 December 1854. It continued north to on what is now part of the Wherry Lines. On 1 June 1859 the line was opened as far south as Westerfield and Ipswich and north to Yarmouth Southtown. In 1862 the Great Eastern Railway took over operation of the line. In 1877 the Felixstowe Branch Line opened. In 1885 an ambitious Midland Railway scheme would, had it come to fruition, have seen Westerfield Junction linked to Chesterton Junction just north of . Like so many schemes of