Kennett railway station

Kennett
Kennett railway station in June 2016
General information
Location	Kentford, East Cambridgeshire England
Grid reference	TL699672
Managed by	Greater Anglia
Platforms	2
Other information
Station code	KNE
Classification	DfT category F2
Key dates
1854	Station opens
14 April 1965	Closed to goods
Passengers
2018/19	42,684
2019/20	42,516
2020/21	9,408
2021/22	36,538
2022/23	43,782
Notes Passenger statistics from the Office of Rail and Road

Kennett is a railway station serving the villages of Kennett in Cambridgeshire and Kentford in Suffolk, England. It opened in 1854 when the railway was extended from Newmarket to Bury St Edmunds. At its peak during the period 1860 to 1890 there was a station master and three other members of staff. From 1929 onwards the four station staff were replaced by a 'Porter-in-charge' until 1967.^[1]

During a heavy storm in 1968, the original brick bridge that crosses the River Kennett east of the station was washed away isolating the line for several days whilst a new metal structure was constructed to replace it.

The station closed to freight traffic on 28 December 1964,^[2] although a Speedlink rail service continued to serve the granary behind the station until the mid-1980s. Further east of the station a siding serves Lafarge aggregate, providing sugar stone for British Sugar.

On 2 January 1967, the station became an unstaffed halt on the Cambridge-Ipswich line^[3] and the main station buildings were demolished in 1976 after being left derelict.^[4] Parts of the original building were retained to serve as storage for the signal box and line-side maintenance; these have since been demolished. The station buildings were typical of the line between Bury St Edmunds and Newmarket, and consisted of a two-story station master's house adjoining a small booking hall, similar to the extant buildings at Higham station. ^{[citation needed]}