Godmanchester railway station was a railway station situated in the town of

Godmanchester Godmanchester ( ) is a town and civil parish in the Huntingdonshire district of Cambridgeshire, England. It is separated from Huntingdon, to the north, by the valley of the River Great Ouse. Being on the Roman road network, the town has a lo ...

Huntingdonshire Huntingdonshire (; abbreviated Hunts) is a non-metropolitan district of Cambridgeshire and a historic county of England. The district council is based in Huntingdon. Other towns include St Ives, Godmanchester, St Neots and Ramsey. The popul ...

, England. It was situated on the Huntingdon to St Ives line.

History

The station was built by the

Ely and Huntingdon Railway Ely or ELY may refer to: Places Ireland * Éile, a medieval kingdom commonly anglicised Ely * Ely Place, Dublin, a street United Kingdom * Ely, Cambridgeshire, a cathedral city in Cambridgeshire, England ** Ely Cathedral ** Ely Rural District, a f ...

(E&HR), and opened on 19 August 1847; it was originally named ''Huntingdon''. Prior to opening, the E&HR amalgamated with the

Lynn and Dereham Railway The Lynn and Dereham Railway was a standard gauge single track railway running between King's Lynn and Dereham in the English county of Norfolk. The Lynn to Dereham line opened in 1846 and closed in 1968, although the section between Middleton ...

and the

Lynn and Ely Railway King's Lynn railway station is the northern terminus of the Fen line in the east of England, serving the town of King's Lynn, Norfolk. It is from and measured from London Liverpool Street. The station and most trains calling are operated b ...

to form the

East Anglian Railway East or Orient is one of the four cardinal directions or points of the compass. It is the opposite direction from west and is the direction from which the Sun rises on the Earth. Etymology As in other languages, the word is formed from the fac ...

(EAR). The EAR was absorbed by the

Great Eastern Railway The Great Eastern Railway (GER) was a pre-grouping British railway company, whose main line linked London Liverpool Street to Norwich and which had other lines through East Anglia. The company was grouped into the London and North Eastern R ...

(GER) in 1862. The line and station were transferred to the

Great Northern and Great Eastern Joint Railway The Great Northern and Great Eastern Joint Railway, colloquially referred to as "the Joint Line"''Joint Line Joy'', in the Railway Magazine, June 2015 was a railway line connecting Doncaster and Lincoln with March and Huntingdon in the eastern cou ...

(GN&GEJR) in 1879, and on 1 July 1882, the station was renamed ''Godmanchester''. The GN&GEJR became part of the

London and North Eastern Railway The London and North Eastern Railway (LNER) was the second largest (after LMS) of the " Big Four" railway companies created by the Railways Act 1921 in Britain. It operated from 1 January 1923 until nationalisation on 1 January 1948. At th ...

when that company was created in the

1923 Grouping The Railways Act 1921 (c. 55), also known as the Grouping Act, was an Act of Parliament enacted by the British government and intended to stem the losses being made by many of the country's 120 railway companies, by "grouping" them into four la ...

by amalgamation of the GER with several other railways. The station closed to passengers on 15 June 1959 and to freight on 4 June 1962. It has since been demolished.

References

External links

Godmanchester station on navigable 1946 O. S. map

Godmanchester station on Subterranea Britannica
Disused railway stations in Cambridgeshire Former Great Northern and Great Eastern Joint Railway stations Railway stations in Great Britain opened in 1847 Railway stations in Great Britain closed in 1959 1847 establishments in England Godmanchester {{EastEngland-railstation-stub