The line was extended by the Eastern Counties Railway eastwards to Bury St Edmunds on 1 April 1854, but trains had to reverse in or out of the station.
Seven bays, one story divided by coupled Ionic giant columns carrying protected pieces of entablature and big chunks of decorated attic.
[3] An additional island platform was opened on 1 September 1879 for general traffic located on the direct Ipswich - Cambridge line.
The island platform survived disused for a number of years and pictorial evidence from the 1900s shows the surface was partly broken up and flowerbeds created.
The platform was removed sometime in the 1930s to enable the main line to be re-aligned so more siding space could be created at the old terminus site.