Mardock railway station served the village of

Wareside Wareside is a small village and civil parish in the East Hertfordshire district, in the county of Hertfordshire, England. The population of the civil parish in the 2011 census was 735. It is approximately away from the town of Ware (from wher ...

Hertfordshire Hertfordshire ( or ; often abbreviated Herts) is one of the home counties in southern England. It borders Bedfordshire and Cambridgeshire to the north, Essex to the east, Greater London to the south, and Buckinghamshire to the west. For govern ...

, England, from 1863 to 1964 by the Buntingford branch line.

History

The station was opened on 3 July 1863 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 ...

. It was situated on the west side of the road leading to Mardocks Farm. It was known as Mardocks in RCH handbook and Mardock for Wakeside in the 1882 Great Eastern Railway timetable as well as the 1880s editions of Bradshaw. On the north side of the level crossing was a signal box that controlled a siding which served a goods yard and a cattle dock. Goods services ceased on 6 March 1961. The station closed on 16 November 1964. The station building was demolished in 1975.

References

Disused railway stations in Hertfordshire Former Great Eastern Railway stations Railway stations in Great Britain opened in 1863 Railway stations in Great Britain closed in 1964 1863 establishments in England 1964 disestablishments in England Beeching closures in England Wareside {{EastEngland-railstation-stub