Long Melford railway station is a disused station that served the village of
Long Melford in
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 ...
, England. It opened in 1865 as "Melford" and was renamed "Long Melford" in 1884. The station was on the
Stour Valley Railway between and , operated by the
Eastern Counties Railway, as well as
a branch line between Sudbury and . Services over the latter route ended in 1961 and the station and Stour Valley line closed in 1967 as part of the
Beeching cuts. The station building is now a private residence.
A proposal to extend services by building a light railway between Long Melford and
Hadleigh was reported in the ''Haverhill Echo'' on 10 March 1900,
but was never built.
References
External links
Long Melford station on navigable 1946 O. S. mapLong Melford station on ''Subterranea Britannica'' website
Disused railway stations in Suffolk
Former Great Eastern Railway stations
Railway stations in Great Britain opened in 1865
Railway stations in Great Britain closed in 1967
Beeching closures in England
1865 establishments in England
1967 disestablishments in England
Long Melford
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