 Services are operated by Abellio Greater Anglia.The town was formerly the eastern terminus of the Waveney Valley Line linking to the Great Eastern Main Line at Tivetshall in Norfolk and the southern terminus of the Yarmouth to Beccles Line which ran across the River Waveney marshes to Great Yarmouth.Both lines closed between 1954 and 1966 as a result of the Beeching cuts.