Rayne railway station was located in
Rayne, Essex
Rayne is a village of about 2,300 residents in the Braintree district of Essex in the East of England.
It lies on the Roman road called Stane Street, about two miles (3 km) to the west of Braintree, which is the nearest town.
It used ...
. The station was from Bishop's Stortford on the Bishop's Stortford to Braintree branch line (
Engineer's Line Reference
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An Engineer's Line Reference (ELR) is a three alpha, or four alpha-numeric, code used to uniquely identify a railway line on the main-line railway of Britain owned, or maintained, by Network Rail but officia ...
BSB). The station closed in 1952.
History
The station is now the headquarters for the Essex Ranger Service and the visitor centre for the
Flitch Way Flitch can refer to the following things:
* Flitch (wood), a piece of wood for resawing into smaller pieces
* Flitch (bacon), a side of unsliced bacon
* The flitch trials of Great Dunmow
* Flitch beam
A flitch beam (or flitched beam) is a compoun ...
.
The building was
listed at Grade II by
Historic England
Historic England (officially the Historic Buildings and Monuments Commission for England) is an executive non-departmental public body of the British Government sponsored by the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport. It is tasked wit ...
in July 2015.
Route
References
Further reading
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External links
Rayne station on Subterranea Britannica
Disused railway stations in Essex
Former Great Eastern Railway stations
Railway stations in Great Britain opened in 1869
Railway stations in Great Britain closed in 1952
Braintree District
1869 establishments in England
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