Chatteris railway station explained

Chatteris
Status:Disused
Borough:Chatteris, Fenland
Country:England
Grid Name:Grid reference
Platforms:2
Original:Eastern Counties Railway
Pregroup:Great Northern and Great Eastern Joint Railway
Postgroup:London and North Eastern Railway
Events:Opened
Years1:18 April 1966
Events1:Closed to freight
Years2:6 March 1967
Events2:Closed to passengers

Chatteris railway station was a station in Chatteris, Cambridgeshire on the line between and, which was built as a branch of the Great Eastern Railway in 1848 and was later incorporated (on 6 March 1882) into the Great Northern and Great Eastern Joint Railway, a more major route between and via, which included a new line between and Lincoln.

The railway through Chatteris was closed to passengers on 6 March 1967, in the wake of the Beeching Report, along with the joint line between March and St Ives. The part of the joint line between St Ives and Huntingdon had already closed to passengers on 15 June 1959, but St Ives retained the line to Cambridge until 1970. On 29 November 1982 the part of the joint line between March and Spalding was closed, but the route north of Spalding still exists, with services routed via Peterborough.

Chatteris station was demolished in the early 1970s and the station site and trackbed used for the new alignment of the A141 road.

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