[2] Ordnance Survey maps from the 1920s show a network of narrow-gauge horse-drawn feeder agricultural tramways running southwest from the station yard onto the Hiam Estate.

On 3 December 1976, at about 16:00, a passenger train collided with a lorry on an unmanned level crossing near Shippea Hill.

In 2012, the signal box was closed and the crossing gates were replaced with automatic barriers and warning lights.

In December 2016, Ian Cumming, a finalist from The Great British Bake Off attracted at least 16 people to the station by handing out free mince pies.

Shipping containers for sale stand in a muddy yard behind the far platform, opposite the pitched-roof signal box, now shuttered.

The 1966/1967 timetable shows that about twelve trains a day called in each direction, and it was used as a railhead for the airbases at Mildenhall and Lakenheath.

[10] As of February 2023[update], on weekdays the station is served by one train per day (in the morning peak) to Norwich departing at 07:26.