Hilgay | |
Status: | Disused |
Borough: | Hilgay, Norfolk |
Country: | England |
Grid Name: | Grid reference |
Platforms: | 2 |
Original: | Lynn and Ely Railway East Anglian Railway |
Pregroup: | Great Eastern Railway |
Postgroup: | London and North Eastern Railway |
Years: | 25 October 1847 |
Events: | Opened as Hilgay Fen |
Years1: | 1 October 1896 |
Events1: | Renamed Hilgay |
Years2: | 4 November 1963 |
Events2: | Closed to passengers |
Years3: | 13 July 1964 |
Events3: | closed for freight |
Hilgay railway station was a station in Hilgay, Norfolk, United Kingdom which is now closed. It was on the Fen Line between King's Lynn and Cambridge. It was closed in 1963 along with nearby Stow Bardolph.
One mile south of Hilgay station, Hiams Siding provided an interchange with the narrow gauge Hiams Tramway, an agricultural tramway which extended 3 km west on a zigzag alignment to the west across the fields of the Hiams Estate to Willow Glen Farm.