Stow St Mary Halt | |
Status: | Disused |
Borough: | Stow Maries, Maldon |
Country: | England |
Coordinates: | 51.6612°N 0.6514°W |
Grid Name: | Grid reference |
Platforms: | 1 |
Original: | London and North Eastern Railway |
Postgroup: | London and North Eastern Railway |
Years1: | 24 September 1928 |
Events1: | Opened |
Years2: | 10 September 1939 |
Events2: | Closed |
Stow St. Mary Halt railway station was a halt that served the village of Stow Maries, Essex.
It was opened on 24 September 1928 by the London and North Eastern Railway on the single-track branch line (Engineer's Line Reference WFM) that the Great Eastern Railway had opened on 1 October 1889 linking Woodham Ferrers to Maldon East. The station served the village of Stow Maries, but the station was named differently supposedly on the insistence of the vicar.[1]
It was closed in September 1939 but the line remained in use for goods traffic until 1959[2] or 1953.[3] It is now Stow Maries Halt nature reserve, which is managed by the Essex Wildlife Trust.