Long Stanton railway station

Former railway station in Cambridgeshire, England

Long Stanton station building, with a bus travelling on the guided busway, October 2019

Long Stanton railway station was a station on the Great Eastern Railway, between Cambridge and Huntingdon. It served the villages of Longstanton and Willingham (being roughly midway between them), until closure in October 1970.[1] The station was immortalised in 1964 in the song "Slow Train" by Flanders and Swann.

The railway line through Long Stanton remained open for freight trains from Cambridge to St Ives, Cambridgeshire, until 1992. The track was removed and one platform demolished in 2007, due to construction of the Cambridgeshire Guided Busway; however, the station building remains in private ownership. Parts from the platforms were preserved for re-use on the Mid-Norfolk Railway.


Preceding station   Disused railways   Following station
Swavesey   Great Eastern Railway   Oakington

References

  1. ^ Quick, M. E. (2002). Railway passenger stations in England, Scotland and Wales – a chronology. Richmond: Railway and Canal Historical Society. p. 277. OCLC 931112387.
  • "Disused Stations". Subterranea Britannica.
  • Long Stanton station on navigable 1946 O. S. map
  • Video on the Cambridge Busway and the old Long Stanton railway station
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