Shelford railway station is on the

West Anglia Main Line The West Anglia Main Line is one of the two main lines that operate out of , the other being the Great Eastern Main Line, which operates services to Ipswich and Norwich via Colchester. It runs generally north through Cheshunt, Broxbourne, Har ...

serving the villages of

Great Shelford Great Shelford is a village located approximately to the south of Cambridge, in the county of Cambridgeshire, in eastern England. In 1850 Great Shelford parish contained bisected by the river Cam. The population in 1841 was 803 people. By 2001 ...

, Little Shelford and Stapleford in

Cambridgeshire Cambridgeshire (abbreviated Cambs.) is a county in the East of England, bordering Lincolnshire to the north, Norfolk to the north-east, Suffolk to the east, Essex and Hertfordshire to the south, and Bedfordshire and Northamptonshire to the ...

, England. It is down the line from

London Liverpool Street Liverpool Street station, also known as London Liverpool Street, is a central London railway terminus and connected London Underground station in the north-eastern corner of the City of London, in the ward of Bishopsgate Without. It is the t ...

and is situated between and . Its three-letter station code is SED. The station and all trains calling are operated by Greater Anglia.

History

The station was opened by the

Eastern Counties Railway The Eastern Counties Railway (ECR) was an English railway company incorporated in 1836 intended to link London with Ipswich via Colchester, and then extend to Norwich and Yarmouth. Construction began in 1837 on the first nine miles at the Lond ...

in 1845 and later became a junction with the opening of the

Stour Valley Railway The Stour Valley Railway is a partially closed railway line that ran between , near Cambridge and in Essex, England. The line opened in sections between 1849 and 1865. The route from Shelford to Sudbury closed on 6 March 1967 leaving only th ...

from on 1 June 1865. The subsequent completion of the line onwards to a few months later created a through link with on the Great Eastern Main Line. This was used by through holiday trains between and the Midlands in

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and British Rail days but then fell victim to the Beeching Axe, closing to all traffic on 6 March 1967. However, the line between Sudbury and is still in use today. Eminent theatre director Sir Peter Hall lived here in his early life when his father Reginald Hall was the stationmaster.

Services

All services at Shelford are operated by Greater Anglia using EMUs. The typical off-peak service in trains per hour is: * 1 tph to

* 1 tph to During the peak hours, the service is increased to 2 tph in each direction. The station is also served by a small number of peak hour services to and from .

References

External links

* Railway stations in Cambridgeshire DfT Category E stations Former Great Eastern Railway stations Railway stations in Great Britain opened in 1845 Greater Anglia franchise railway stations {{EastEngland-railstation-stub