Haughley railway station

Haughley
The site of the station in 1997
General information
LocationHaughley, District of Mid Suffolk
England
Platforms4
Other information
StatusDisused
History
Original companyEastern Union Railway[1]
Pre-groupingGreat Eastern Railway
Post-groupingLNER
Key dates
2 July 1849[1]Opened as Haughley Junction
1866[1]Renamed Haughley Road
1890[1]Renamed Haughley
1 July 1923[1]Renamed Haughley West
September 1932[1]Renamed Haughley
2 January 1967Closed

Haughley railway station was located in Haughley, Suffolk on the Great Eastern Main Line between Liverpool Street Station and Norwich. It opened on 2 July 1849 named Haughley Junction and was a replacement for a station named Haughley Road which had been in service from 1846 to 1849 at location TM 02981 63319 on the line to Elmswell.[1]

Haughley railway station also served two other lines, the line to Bury St Edmunds, Cambridge and Ely and the Mid-Suffolk Light Railway. Originally the Mid-Suffolk Light Railway's operation was confined to an adjacent but separate terminus, but it was closed in 1939 when all services were diverted to the main line station.

Haughley closed with effect from 2 January 1967 as part of the Beeching Axe and most of the station building was demolished as well as the three platforms and the two signalboxes, the turntable filled in and the sidings removed. By 2016 only the stationmaster's house remains.

  1. ^ a b c d e f g 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. 115. ISBN 978-1-85260-508-7. OCLC 60251199. OL 11956311M.