Hadleigh railway station was a station in

Hadleigh, Suffolk Hadleigh () is an ancient market town and civil parish in South Suffolk, East Anglia, situated, next to the River Brett, between the larger towns of Sudbury and Ipswich. It had a population of 8,253 at the 2011 census. The headquarters of Bab ...

, the terminus of the

Hadleigh Railway The Hadleigh Railway was a long single track branch railway line in Suffolk, England, that connected Hadleigh to the main line railway network at Bentley Junction. It was built by the nominally independent Eastern Union and Hadleigh Junction Ra ...

, a short branch line from Bentley Junction. The line opened in 1847. The original intermediate stations were at Bentley Church,

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and Raydon Wood. The terminus had goods sidings on both the south-western and north-eastern sides, the latter serving

malt house A malt house, malt barn, or maltings, is a building where cereal grain is converted into malt by soaking it in water, allowing it to sprout and then drying it to stop further growth. The malt is used in brewing beer, whisky and in certain food ...

s and which was also used as a running round loop. There was also a small engine shed. The station building was very ornate, if somewhat dwarfed by the adjacent malt houses, with attractive coupled chimneys and unusual windows with the frame and arch of stone. The decline in passenger numbers using the branch can be seen in the patronage figures, which were 14,447 in 1923 compared to 5,086 just five years later. The line closed to passenger traffic in 1932, although freight services lingered on until 1965. A proposal to extend services by building a light railway between Hadleigh and

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was reported in the ''Haverhill Echo'' on 10 March 1900, but that was not done. The station building still stands and is in use as a private residence, with newer dwellings around it. The route to Raydon Wood is accessible as the Hadleigh Railway Walk.

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Hadleigh station on navigable 1946 O. S. map

{{DEFAULTSORT:Hadleigh Railway Station Disused railway stations in Suffolk Former Great Eastern Railway stations Railway stations in Great Britain opened in 1847 Railway stations in Great Britain closed in 1932 1847 establishments in England Hadleigh, Suffolk