On the afternoon of 18 December 1941, a German Dornier bombed the station house,[3] killing the stationmaster, his wife and their young maid.

The station is unstaffed but has been "adopted" by volunteers from the East Suffolk Lines Community Rail Partnership[6] who maintain the plantings and remove litter.

As of December 2019[update] the typical Monday-Sunday off-peak service at Halesworth is as follows: Trains direct to and from London Liverpool Street were withdrawn in 2010.

[8] The terminus was located alongside the main railway station, allowing cross-platform interchange of passengers and having transfer sheds for the exchange of goods between the narrow gauge wagons of the Southwold Railway and the standard gauge wagons used on the main line.

[8] In 1933 a siding was laid to serve the dairy (the big building in the picture) and milk tanks ran from Halesworth to Ilford (London) on a daily basis.