The site of the former railway station, with parts of it replaced with the Cambridgeshire Guided Busway (Image: Google)
BREAKING updates from Cambridgeshire's roads, rails and airports More Newsletters Subscribe Please enter a valid email Something went wrong, please try again later. More Newsletters We use your sign-up to provide content in ways you’ve consented to and improve our understanding of you. This may include adverts from us and third parties based on our knowledge of you. More info Thank you for subscribing! We have more newsletters Show me See Our Privacy Notice See Our Privacy Notice × Group 28 Breaking updates from Cambridgeshire's roads, rails and airports Invalid email Something went wrong, please try again later. Sign Up No thanks, close We use your sign-up to provide content in ways you’ve consented to and improve our understanding of you. This may include adverts from us and third parties based on our knowledge of you. More info × Group 28 Thank you for subscribing! We have more newsletters Show Me No thanks, close See our Privacy Notice Over the years, there have been hundreds of railway stations that have closed down for one reason or another. Cambridgeshire is no exception and lost many of its stations in the 1960s. Many of those stations only served passengers for a few years, while others stood strong for well over a century. An example of the latter is Long Stanton railway station, which was operated by Great Eastern Railway. The station opened in the village on August 8, 1847 and was a midpoint station between Cambridge and Huntingdon . It closed for good on March 6, 1967 as part of the 'Beeching cuts', which saw a restructure of the railway system in the
UK. Read more: Gypsy and Traveller family gets green light for new homes near Cambs village Read more: Former Little Chef on the A1 given a new lease of life after being abandoned In 1958, the service consisted of 12 trains each way on weekdays and four on Sunday. Cambridge was around 20 minutes away and destinations served in the other direction included St Ives, March and Kettering among others. The station is well-known for being immortalised in the 1964 song "Slow Train" by Flanders and Swann, with the lyrics "At Long Stanton I'll stand well clear of the doors no more". At 123 years old, it was the longest serving of all the closed stations that are mentioned in the song. Following its closure, it continued serving freight trains from Cambridge to St Ives until 1992. The track was later removed and one platform was demolished in 2007, due to the construction of the Cambridgeshire Guided Busway. However, the station building remains in private ownership and is still available to view to this day. It provides one of the only remnants of the service and serves as a reminder of the track that used to pass through the village. Story Saved You can find this story in My Bookmarks. Or by navigating to the user icon in the top right. Follow CambridgeLive
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