[New post] EAST ANGLIAN PLACES WITH MORE THAN ONE RAILWAY STATION.
joemasonspage posted: " I have already written of Norfolk towns with multiple stations. Now I wish to write of places in Cambridgeshire and Suffolk that were similarly endowed. Although strictly speaking Essex is outside East Anglia, I will include that county too. RAMSEY " joemasonspage
I have already written of Norfolk towns with multiple stations. Now I wish to write of places in Cambridgeshire and Suffolk that were similarly endowed. Although strictly speaking Essex is outside East Anglia, I will include that county too.
RAMSEY
Beginning with Cambridgeshire, the county town itself has multiple railway stations. It has only had more than one station since 2017, when Cambridge North was opened, but within a couple of years it will have three, when Cambridge South should open, serving the biomedical centre round Addenbrooke's Hospital.
Also in Cambridgeshire the market town of Ramsey had two terminus stations from 1898 until 1956, although now it has none. There was also a station at St Mary's on the line from Holme, which was also technically within the town of Ramsey. Wisbech also had two stations; Wisbech East, which was open from 1848 until 1968, and Wisbech North. Wisbech North was on the M & G N, which opened to the town in 1866 and closed to passengers in 1959. It closed to freight in 1964.
Turning to Suffolk, when the railway first arrived in Ipswich in 1846 the terminus was at Stoke Hill to the south of the current station. The station was moved to its present site in 1860, after the tunnel had been in position for some years. As well as the principal station the town of Ipswich has another station at Derby Road. This was opened in 1877, along with the line to Felixstowe on which it stands. Lowestoft had a second station, Lowestoft North, which opened in 1903. This went directly to Yarmouth (Southtown), and to Yarmouth Beach via the Breydon viaduct. The main station had been opened in 1847. Once a second station existed in the town the principal station was renamed Lowestoft Central. Lowestoft North station closed completely in 1970; goods serviced had been withdrawn in 1967.
Because of the nature of the two remaining railway lines out of Lowestoft, there remain two railway stations in Oulton Broad. Oulton Broad South is on the line to Beccles and was opened in 1859 as Carlton Colville. The other one is Oulton Broad North; this too, when it opened in 1847, originally had a different name - in this case Mutford. This line goes from Olton Broad via Somerleyton to Norwich. There was a proposal in 2015 to reintroduce a rail service from Yarmouth to Lowestoft, via Oulton Broad North, Reedham and the Berney Arms Halt. For some reason this attracted criticism and no more has been heard of it.
There were two stations at Haverhill in Suffolk; on the Stour Valley railway line there was Haverhill North which opened in 1865 and closed in 1967. The Colne Valley and Halstead Railway also had a station at Haverhill, Haverhill South. This opened a couple of years earlier, in 1863; it closed completely in 1965, having lost its passenger services in 1961.
In Essex Harwich has three railway stations. Harwich Town is the eastern terminus of the Mayflower line. It was opened in 1854. Dovercourt station is also now part of Harwich, although previously it was a separate parish. There is also the more important station of Harwich International, which links to the Stena ferry to the Hook of Holland. This station was built on reclaimed land in 1883.
Colchester has three stations. The main station is on the East Coast Mainline; it was opened in 1843. Colchester Town was opened in 1866. This station serves the lines to Clacton and Walton-one-the-Naze. This station was called St Botolph's until 1991. There is a third station in Colchester; the line originally served the port on the river Colne, and a spur ran to the quay. The station was opened in 1863 - before that dated the line had been for freight only. The station is station is called Hythe.
Southend-on-Sea's principal railway station is Southend Central; it was opened in 1856 on the London, Tilbury and Southend line. This line was later extended to Shoeburyness. The line from Shenfield to Southend was opened in 1889. The terminus of this line is Southend Victoria, built by the Great Eastern line. In 2011 a station to serve the airport was opened on the line to Shenfield. The other Airport in Essex is Stansted, and this also has two railway stations, one now called Stansted Mountfichet. This opened in 1845. The other one is Stansted Airport, which opened in 1991.
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