Ramsey East railway station

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Ramsey East
General information
Location Ramsey, Huntingdonshire
England
Platforms1
Other information
StatusDisused
History
Original company Great Eastern Railway
Pre-grouping Great Northern and Great Eastern Joint Railway
Post-grouping London and North Eastern Railway
Key dates
16 September 1889Opened as Ramsey High Street [1]
1 July 1923Renamed Ramsey East
22 September 1930Closed for passengers
17 September 1956closed for freight
Location
Ramsey East railway station

Ramsey East railway station was a railway station in Ramsey, Cambridgeshire, which is now closed. It opened on 16 September 1889, and closed to passenger traffic on 22 September 1930, [2] and to freight traffic on 17 September 1956. The site is now occupied by the west side of Bury Road Industrial Estate, and a new housing development aptly called Signal Road and The Sidings. It was the terminus of a branch line connected via Warboys railway station to Somersham, where it joined the Great Eastern Railway line between St Ives and March, which at its upper end towards March is now occupied by the route A141 between Chatteris and March.

Preceding stationDisused railwaysFollowing station
Terminus  GN and GE Joint Railway   Warboys

References

  1. ↑ Butt, R. V. J. (October 1995). The Directory of Railway Stations: details every public and private passenger station, halt, platform and stopping place, past and present (1st ed.). Sparkford: Patrick Stephens Ltd. p. 194. ISBN   978-1-85260-508-7. OCLC   60251199. OL   11956311M.
  2. ↑ Quick, M. E. (2002). Railway passenger stations in England, Scotland and Wales – a chronology. Richmond: Railway and Canal Historical Society. p. 358. OCLC   931112387.

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