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Coldham railway station was a station in Coldham,
Cambridgeshire Cambridgeshire (abbreviated Cambs.) is a Ceremonial counties of England, ceremonial county in the East of England and East Anglia. It is bordered by Lincolnshire to the north, Norfolk to the north-east, Suffolk to the east, Essex and Hertfor ...
. It was on the branch of 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 ...
which ran from
March March is the third month of the year in both the Julian and Gregorian calendars. Its length is 31 days. In the Northern Hemisphere, the meteorological beginning of spring occurs on the first day of March. The March equinox on the 20 or 2 ...
to
Watlington, Norfolk Watlington is a village, civil parish and electoral ward in the English county of Norfolk. It covers an area of and had a population of 2,031 in 852 households at the 2001 census, the population increasing to 2,455 at the 2011 Census. It i ...
. The station opened in 1847, and in 1894 a porter was killed in an accident there. The station closed in 1966, the line closed for passengers in 1968 and for freight in 2000. Nothing remains of the former station, with the exception of the former toilet block, which is concealed by undergrowth which has built up since the station closed. A plan by the
Bramley Line The Wisbech and March line is a disused railway line between March, Cambridgeshire, March and Wisbech in Cambridgeshire, England. A number of proposals are currently being investigated relating to the possible restoration of passenger service ...
to restore the line between Wisbech and March may see trains return to Coldham in some form.


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Disused railway stations in Cambridgeshire Former Great Eastern Railway stations Railway stations in Great Britain opened in 1847 Railway stations in Great Britain closed in 1966 1847 establishments in England {{EastEngland-railstation-stub