Long Melford railway station

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Long Melford
Former Station, Long Melford - geograph.org.uk - 446672.jpg
The former station in 2007
LocationLong Melford, Babergh
England
Platforms2
Other information
StatusDisused
History
Pre-groupingGreat Eastern Railway
Post-groupingLondon and North Eastern Railway
Key dates
9 Aug 1865[1]Opened as Melford
1 Feb 1884Renamed Long Melford
6 Mar 1967Closed

Long Melford railway station is a disused station that served the village of Long Melford in Suffolk, England. It opened in 1865 as "Melford" and was renamed "Long Melford" in 1884. The station was on the Stour Valley Railway between Sudbury and Cambridge, operated by the Eastern Counties Railway, as well as a branch line between Sudbury and Bury St Edmunds. Services over the latter route ended in 1961 and the station and Stour Valley line closed in 1967 as part of the Beeching cuts. The station building is now a private residence.

A proposal to extend services by building a light railway between Long Melford and Hadleigh was reported in the Haverhill Echo on 10 March 1900,[2] but was never built.

References[]

  1. ^ Butt, R. V. J. (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. ISBN 978-1-85260-508-7. OCLC 60251199.
  2. ^ "1900-1903HaverhillEcho.HTML FDLHS newspaper archive".

External links[]

Preceding station   Disused railways   Following station
Glemsford
Line and station closed 		  Great Eastern Railway
Stour Valley Railway 		  Sudbury
Line and station closed
Terminus   Great Eastern Railway
Long Melford-Bury St Edmunds Branch 		  Lavenham
Line and station closed

Coordinates: 52°03′58″N 0°42′39″E / 52.0660°N 0.7109°E / 52.0660; 0.7109


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