Haughley railway station
Haughley railway station was located in Haughley, Suffolk on the Great Eastern Main Line between Liverpool Street Station and Norwich. It opened on 7 July 1849 named Haughley Junction and was a replacement for a station named Haughley Road which had been in service from 1846 to 1849 at location TM 02981 63319 on the line to Elmswell.
Haughley | |
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The site of the station in 1997 | |
| General information | |
| Location | Haughley, District of Mid Suffolk England |
| Platforms | 4 |
| Other information | |
| Status | Disused |
| History | |
| Original company | Eastern Union Railway |
| Pre-grouping | Great Eastern Railway |
| Post-grouping | LNER |
| Key dates | |
| 2 July 1849 | Opened as Haughley Junction |
| 1866 | Renamed Haughley Road |
| 1890 | Renamed Haughley |
| 1 July 1923 | Renamed Haughley West |
| September 1932 | Renamed Haughley |
| 2 January 1967 | Closed |
Haughley railway station also served two other lines, the line to Bury St Edmunds, Cambridge and Ely and the Mid-Suffolk Light Railway. Originally the Mid-Suffolk Light Railway's operation was confined to an adjacent but separate terminus but it was closed in 1925 when all services were diverted to the main line station.
Haughley closed with effect from 2 January 1967 as part of the Beeching Axe and most of the station building was demolished as well as the three platforms and the two signalboxes, the turntable filled in and the sidings removed. By 2016 only the stationmaster's house remains.