Long Melford railway station explained

Long Melford
Status:Disused
Borough:Long Melford, Babergh
Country:England
Platforms:2
Pregroup:Great Eastern Railway
Postgroup:London and North Eastern Railway
Years:9 August 1865
Events:Opened as Melford
Years1:1 February 1884
Events1:Renamed Long Melford
Years2:6 March 1967
Events2:Closed

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 and, operated by the Eastern Counties Railway, as well as a branch line between Long Melford and . 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,[1] but was never built.

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Notes and References

  1. Web site: 1900-1903HaverhillEcho.HTML FDLHS newspaper archive.