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Boothferry Park Halt railway station opened on 6 January 1951 on an embankment of the former
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to serve the
Boothferry Park Boothferry Park was a football stadium in Hull, England, which was home to Hull City A.F.C. from 1946 until 2002, when they moved to the KC Stadium. In later years, financial constraints forced Hull City to allow Kwik Save and Iceland superma ...
football stadium which had opened in Hull,
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in August 1946. The station was first used for a match against Everton when six trains ran the football service between Paragon Station, Hull's Paragon railway station and Boothferry Park. The station closed in 1986 for safety reasons. The station was a single platform, long. It was removed in October 2007 by
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during engineering work. Boothferry Park Halt railway station was one of several in England built to provide a dedicated match-day service to a football ground; others included , , in Derby, and the first
Wembley Stadium station Wembley Stadium railway station is a Network Rail station in Wembley, Greater London, on the Chiltern Main Line. It is the nearest station to Wembley Stadium, and is located a quarter of a mile (400 m) south west of the sports venue. History ...
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Disused railway stations in Kingston upon Hull Railway stations opened by British Rail Railway stations in Great Britain opened in 1951 Railway stations in Great Britain closed in 1986 {{Yorkshire-Humber-railstation-stub