train. Shipping containers for sale stand in a muddy yard behind the far platform, opposite the pitched-roof signal box, now shuttered. Otherwise the view is of field after field, some showing maize stumps, others now peat-black and ploughed." Shippea Hill station was not always so quiet. The 1966/1967 timetable shows that about 12 trains a day called in each direction and it was used as a railhead for the airbases at Mildenhall and Lakenheath; many Americans boarded or left the train there. Geoff Marshall and Vicki Pipe featured the station on their YouTube channel All The Stations, which catalogued their attempt to visit all currently operating railway stations in Great Britain. In Episode 17, on 3 June 2017, they started their day at Shippea Hill and with a group of their friends plus three genuine passengers, they almost doubled the entire previous years total of 12 passengers in one day. After the video was published, Shippea Hill's passenger numbers spiked. Services Shippea Hill is a request stop, so passengers must signal to the conductor or driver if they wish to alight or board. , on weeekdays the station is served by one train per day (in the morning peak) to departing at 07:26. On Saturdays there a service to Norwich departing at 07:47 and one train to departing at 16:15. There is no Sunday service. Despite the next station, Lakenheath, being only a few miles away, there are no direct services between the two stations. References External links Railway stations in Cambridgeshire DfT Category F2 stations Former Great Eastern Railway stations Railway stations in Great Britain opened in 1845 Greater Anglia franchise railway stations Railway request stops in Great Britain Low usage railway stations in the United Kingdom