Great Raydon Wood | |
Status: | Disused |
Borough: | Raydon, Babergh |
Country: | England |
Platforms: | 1 |
Original: | Eastern Union & Hadleigh Junction Railway |
Pregroup: | Great Eastern Railway |
Postgroup: | London and North Eastern Railway |
Years: | 2 Sep 1847 |
Events: | Opened as Raydon |
Years1: | 1 Oct 1895 |
Events1: | Renamed Raydon Wood |
Years2: | 29 Feb 1932 |
Events2: | Closed for passengers |
Years3: | 19 April 1965 |
Events3: | closed for freight |
Raydon Wood railway station was a station in Suffolk, on a short branch line from Bentley Junction to Hadleigh. There was a goods shed on a passing loop which included a small siding on the south side of the station at the Bentley end.[1]
Together with it was extensively used for handling supplies in World War II for a nearby United States Army Air Forces base, later known as RAF Raydon.
The line opened in 1847 and closed to passenger traffic in 1932, with freight services lingering on until 1965.
The station building still stands, in disrepair and unused next to CPL Distribution, a coal merchant's depot. It is unknown who owns the Station Building but it is boarded up and not part of CPL Distribution