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SHIPPEA HILL - 1980 - On the line from Ely to Thetford, it is one of the least used stations in Britain. Opened in 1845 as Mildenhall Road (a railway euphemism for miles from anywhere), Mildenhall is about 4 miles away. In 1885 it was renamed Burnt Fen and Shippea Hill in 1904. There is no village of Shippea Hill, just a pub in the middle of nowhere and nothing. The station sees 8 stopping trains a week, with only one eastbound service on weekdays and one in each direction on a Saturday. The level crossing is still manually operated. Seen here in April 1980.
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SHIPPEA HILL - 1980 - On the line from Ely to Thetford, it is one of the least used stations in Britain. Opened in 1845 as Mildenhall Road (a railway euphemism for miles from anywhere), Mildenhall is about 4 miles away. In 1885 it was renamed Burnt Fen and Shippea Hill in 1904. There is no village of Shippea Hill, just a pub in the middle of nowhere and nothing. The station sees 8 stopping trains a week, with only one eastbound service on weekdays and one in each direction on a Saturday. The level crossing is still manually operated. Seen here in April 1980.

  • RAMSEY EAST - 1960's - The small Fenland town of Ramsey was once home to no less than two railway termini. Ramsey East was the terminus of a short branch line from Somersham on the March - Cambridge via St. Ives line. It was opened by the GER in September 1889 as Ramsey High Street and renamed Ramsey East by the LNER in July 1923. Passenger traffic was never heavy, the public favouring Ramsey North, whose services to Holme connected with the East Coast Mainline, London and Peterborough. It closed to passengers in September 1930 and completely in September 1956. It is seen here without track long after closure.
  • RAMSEY NORTH - 1952 - The small Fenland town of Ramsey was once home to no less than two railway termini. Ramsey North, so named by the LNER in 1923 to differentiate it from the GER station, Ramsey East, was the terminus of a short branch line from Holme on the East Coast mainline. As can be seen, it was a rather ramshackle affair and lost it's passenger services as long ago as October 1947, although freight, principally farm produce, was still shipped out until December 1973. Out of shot on the left is a large brick warehouse which is all that now remains of the station. Here looking west towards Holme in August 1952.
  • RAMSEY NORTH - 1959 -The small Fenland town of Ramsey was once home to no less than two railway termini. Ramsey North, so named by the LNER in 1923 to differentiate it from the GER station, Ramsey East, was the terminus of a short branch line from Holme on the East Coast mainline. Passenger services ceased in October 1947, although freight, principally farm produce, was still shipped out until December 1973. seen here in April 1959 is a Class J6 0-6-0 on the daily goods.
  • RAMSEY NORTH - 1960's - The small Fenland town of Ramsey was once home to no less than two railway termini. Ramsey North, so named by the LNER in 1923 to differentiate it from the GER station, Ramsey East, was the terminus of a short branch line from Holme on the East Coast mainline. As can be seen, it was a rather ramshackle affair and lost it's passenger services as long ago as October 1947, although freight, principally farm produce, was still shipped out until December 1973. The large brick warehouse on the right is all that now remains of the station. Here looking east in later years.
  • RAMSEY NORTH - 1973 - The small Fenland town of Ramsey was once home to no less than two railway termini. Ramsey North, so named by the LNER in 1923 to differentiate it from the GER station, Ramsey East, was the terminus of a short branch line from Holme on the East Coast mainline. As can be seen, it was a rather ramshackle affair and lost it's passenger services as long ago as October 1947, although freight, principally farm produce, was still shipped out until December 1973. Seen here in June 1973, the large brick warehouse on the right is all that now remains of the station.
  • RAMSEY ST MARYS - 1950's - The only intermediate station on the brnachline from Ramsey North to Holme on GNR mainline, Ramsey St Marys can't have ever produced much passenger traffic and services ceased in 1947. However, a large amount of goods traffic left the small yard on the right of the platform, particularly potatoes and sugar beet, traffic that continued until 1971. Nothing now remains of the station.
  • SHIPPEA HILL - 1980 - On the line from Ely to Thetford, it is one of the least used stations in Britain. Opened in 1845 as Mildenhall Road (a railway euphemism for miles from anywhere), Mildenhall is about 4 miles away. In 1885 it was renamed Burnt Fen and Shippea Hill in 1904. There is no village of Shippea Hill, just a pub in the middle of nowhere and nothing. The station sees 8 stopping trains a week, with only one eastbound service on weekdays and one in each direction on a Saturday. The level crossing is still manually operated. Seen here in April 1980.
  • SHIPPEA HILL - 2016 - If you were lost in vast wastes of the fen, I'm sure you'd find this map extremely helpful, 03/11/16. This area is truly one of the most desolate places I have ever been - I should think that the population density is probably slightly less than the Moon! If I was to mark every house on this map with a red dot, there would be about 6 or 7and, as for 'Station Road', it is actually the trackbed of a siding that used to run to Chiver's Chicory Factory about a mile away and now part of a long distence footpath.
  • SHIPPEA HILL - 2016 - Officially the least used station in Britain, with only one stopping service on a weekday from Cambridge to Norwich (I don't know how you get back!) and two on a Saturday. The paucity of the service is not really surprising as there is no village nearby, just an ex-pub, two ex-railway cottages and an awful lot of nothing. There is not even a bench on the westbound platform but as only I of the 7 trains a week stops on it, it's perhaps not such a big problem. The signalbox was only recently taken out of use when the line was resignalled, the hand-operated gates being replaced at the same time. Seen here on 03/11/16.
  • SHIPPEA HILL - 2022 - Looking east from the station, the group of buildings in the distance were, until the late 1960's, Chivers Estates chicory farm. Chicory was, and still is, used in the making of coffee substitute. The green sward on the left was a private siding that ran from Shippea Hill station yard for the mile or so to the chicory farm, worked by a small petrol engined locomotive (see in Other Industrial Locomotives or put 'Shippea Hill' into the search engine). The trackbed is now part of a national long distance path, the Hereward Way, that links Oakham and Thetford. Seen here on October 29th, 2022.
  • SHIPPEA HILL - 2022 - Officially the least used station in Britain, with only one stopping service on a weekday from Cambridge to Norwich (I don't know how you get back!) and two on a Saturday. That was in 2016. It appears now that the Saturday services have been withdrawn and so no trains now stop on this platform at all, obviously the reason that new platform seats have been put in! Who's going to sit on them but me! Seen here on 26/09/22, my birthday.
  • SIX MILE BOTTOM - Opened in April 1848 by the Newmarket & Chesterford Railway on the line between Cambridge and Newmarket, Six Mile Bottom closed completely in January 1967. However, the line remains open and the station house and the platform it stands on survive in private hands.
  • SOHAM - 1910's - Opened in September 1879 on the Great Eastern Railway line from Ely to Bury St Edmunds, the station was largely destroyed on June 2nd, 1944, when a wagon on an ammunition train caught fire and blew up. Fortunately, due to the heroism of the train crew, only the one wagon blew up and not the whole train. Nevertheless, two people were killed and over 700 buildings damaged. It was rebuilt and finally closed in September 1965. Soham is now a very large and growing village and there are plans to reopen the station.
  • SOHAM - 1950's - Opened in September 1879 on the Great Eastern Railway line from Ely to Bury St Edmunds, the station was largely destroyed on June 2nd, 1944, when a wagon on an ammunition train caught fire and blew up. Fortunately, due to the heroism of the train crew, only the one wagon blew up and not the whole train. Nevertheless, two people were killed and over 700 buildings damaged. It was rebuilt and finally closed in September 1965. Soham is now a very large and growing village and, as of September 2021, the new station is under construction. Here we are looking west towards Ely.
  • SOHAM - 2022 - Opened in September 1879, blown up in June 1944, rebuilt, closed in September 1965 and a new station built in December 2021 - quite a history for a small, country station! This station is very basic, enough platform room for a 4-car 'Flirt', more CCTV cameras than I've ever seen. It has a two-hourly service to Ipswich and Peterborough and when I was there (on a Tuesday afternoon) seemed quite well patronised. Despite bring open since December, there was still construction work taking place, no cycles in the 16 cycle racks and mine was the only 'civvie' car in the car park. Seen here from the street side on April 26th, 2022.
  • SOHAM - 2022 - Opened in September 1879, blown up in June 1944, rebuilt, closed in September 1965 and a new station built in December 2021 - quite a history for a small, country station! This station is very basic, enough platform room for a 4-car 'Flirt', more CCTV cameras than I've ever seen. It has a two-hourly service to Ipswich and Peterborough and when I was there (on a Tuesday afternoon) seemed quite well patronised. Despite bring open since December, there was still construction work taking place, no cycles in the 16 cycle racks and mine was the only 'civvie' car in the car park. Seen here looking east showing the banking in place for the second platform, if the track ever gets doubled. The footbridge is very high, with three flights of steps, no doubt to allow for future electrification. Seen here on April 26th, 2022.
  • SOHAM - 2022 - Opened in September 1879, blown up in June 1944, rebuilt, closed in September 1965 and a new station built in December 2021 - quite a history for a small, country station! This station is very basic, enough platform room for a 4-car 'Flirt', more CCTV cameras than I've ever seen. It has a two-hourly service to Ipswich and Peterborough and when I was there (on a Tuesday afternoon) seemed quite well patronised. Despite bring open since December, there was still construction work taking place, no cycles in the 16 cycle racks and mine was the only 'civvie' car in the car park. Seen here on April 26th, 2022.
  • SOHAM - 2022 - Opened in September 1879, blown up in June 1944, rebuilt, closed in September 1965 and a new station built in December 2021 - quite a history for a small, country station! This station is very basic, enough platform room for a 4-car 'Flirt', more CCTV cameras than I've ever seen. It has a two-hourly service to Ipswich and Peterborough and when I was there (on a Tuesday afternoon) seemed quite well patronised. Despite bring open since December, there was still construction work taking place, no cycles in the 16 cycle racks and mine was the only 'civvie' car in the car park. Seen here on April 26th, 2022.
  • SOMERSHAM - 1920's - Opened by the Great Eastern Railway in March 1848 on its line from March to St Ives, the station closed completely in March 1967. From 1889, it became a junction when the branch to Ramsey East opened. Passenger traffic was always sparse, roughly one train every two hours, all stations, but in the 1950's over 80 freight trains a day were diagrammed, mainly carrying coal from Whitemoor to eastern London. It was an important diversionary route for the East Coast Main Line and avoided extremely busy Ely, convergence of no less than 6 routes. However, traffic rapidly declined with the enforcement of the Clean Air Act in the 1960's. The station building was demolished on closure and re-erected on Sir William Mc Alpine's private railway at Fawley, Oxfordshire. This view from about 1910's, looking north. The level crossing is at the top a steep ramp and adjacent to a very low roadbridge served by the single lane road on the left, an arrangement quite common in the flatness of the Fens.
  • SOMERSHAM - 1930 - Opened by the Great Eastern Railway in March 1848 on its line from March to St Ives, the station closed completely in March 1967. From 1889, it became a junction when the branch to Ramsey East opened. Here we see ex-GER Class F7 2-4-2T No.8308 about to work the last passenger to Warboys and Ramsey East on Saturday September 20th, 1930.
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