Bainton Gate railway station

Bainton Gate
Location
Place Bainton
Area Cambridgeshire
Grid reference TF093065
Operations
Pre-grouping Midland Railway
Post-grouping Closed
History
2 October 1846 Opened
1 August 1856 Closed
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Bainton Gate railway station was a short lived railway "station" in Cambridgeshire on the Syston and Peterborough Railway serving the village of Bainton. It was located at the level crossing on the Bainton to Tallington road. The crossing keeper's cottage survives and is now a private house. According to The Syston and Peterborough website, this cottage doubled as the station building.[1]The station closed on 1 August 1856.[2]

Former Services
Preceding station Disused railways Following station
Uffington & Barnack   Midland Railway
Leicester to Peterborough		   Helpston

References

  1. ^ The Syston and Peterborough Railway (http://www.systonandpeterborough.info)
  2. ^ Forgotten Railways, The East Midlands