Bottisham & Lode Station 1859117 8ef0a2df

Bottisham and Lode Railway Station is a disused railway station on the

Cambridge to Mildenhall railway The Cambridge to Mildenhall railway is a closed railway between Cambridge and Mildenhall in England. It was built by the Great Eastern Railway, and opened in two stages, in 1894 and 1895. Traversing thinly populated agricultural terrain, it was ...

in East Anglia,

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. The station is located on the northern outskirts of the village of

Lode In geology, a lode is a deposit of metalliferous ore that fills or is embedded in a fissure (or crack) in a rock formation or a vein of ore that is deposited or embedded between layers of rock. The current meaning (ore vein) dates from the 17t ...

, at the end of Station Road. The station opened in 1884 as one of the intermediate stops on the

. It was originally known as Bottisham Station at the beginning and became Bottisham and Lode Station in 1897 when the then single parish of the separate settlements of Bottisham and Lode split into two distinct village parishes for the first time. The station closed for passengers in 1962 and goods in 1964.

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Bottisham and Lode station on navigable 1946 O. S. map

Station photographed in 2008

Bottisham and Lode at Disused Stations
Disused railway stations in Cambridgeshire Former Great Eastern Railway stations Railway stations in Great Britain opened in 1884 Railway stations in Great Britain closed in 1962 {{EastEngland-railstation-stub