Hacheston Halt railway station was a station located in

Hacheston Hacheston is a village and a civil parish in the East Suffolk district, in the English county of Suffolk. The population of the parish at the 2011 census was 345. It is located on the B1116 road between the towns of Wickham Market and Framlingham ...

Suffolk Suffolk () is a ceremonial county of England in East Anglia. It borders Norfolk to the north, Cambridgeshire to the west and Essex to the south; the North Sea lies to the east. The county town is Ipswich; other important towns include Lowes ...

situated on the Framlingham Branch. The branch was opened in 1859, but Hacheston Halt was not opened until 1922 in an attempt 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 ...

to improve the passenger receipts on the branch.Great Eastern Railway Society Journal 131 pages 130-137 Stanley C Jenkins (July 2007) Hacheston Halt was a very basic station and did not even possess a platform so passengers had to use a ladder to get on and off the trains that called at the station. The station was served by trains that operated between

Framlingham Framlingham is a market town and civil parishes in England, civil parish in Suffolk, England. Of Anglo-Saxons, Anglo-Saxon origin, it appears in the 1086 Domesday Book. The parish had a population of 3,342 at the 2011 Census and an estimated 4, ...

and

Wickham Market Wickham Market is a large village and electoral ward situated in the River Deben valley of Suffolk, England, within the Suffolk Coastal heritage area. It is on the A12 trunk road north-east of the county town of Ipswich, north-east of Wood ...

; Withdrawal of passenger services in November, 1952.

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Hacheston Halt station on navigable 1946 O. S. map
Disused railway stations in Suffolk Former Great Eastern Railway stations Railway stations in Great Britain opened in 1922 Railway stations in Great Britain closed in 1952 {{EastEngland-railstation-stub