Raydon Wood railway station explained

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

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Notes and References

  1. Book: Mitchell, Vic . June 2011 . Branch Lines to Harwich and Hadleigh . Midhurst . Middleton Press . plan XII . 978-1-908174-02-4 .