Stretham railway station was a station in

Stretham Stretham Locally, the is a glottal stop: or even is a village and civil parish south-south-west of Ely, Cambridgeshire, Ely in Cambridgeshire, England, about by road from London. Its main attraction is Stretham Old Engine, a steam engine, ...

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 ...

on the

Ely and St Ives Railway The Ely and St Ives Railway was a railway company that opened a line between those places (in Cambridgeshire, England) in 1878. It was an extension of the privately promoted Ely, Haddenham & Sutton Railway that had opened in 1866. It was a standa ...

History

The railway line between and

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was built by the

Ely, Haddenham and Sutton Railway The Ely and St Ives Railway was a railway company that opened a line between those places (in Cambridgeshire, England) in 1878. It was an extension of the privately promoted Ely, Haddenham & Sutton Railway that had opened in 1866. It was a standa ...

(EH&SR). It opened on 16 April 1866, and one of the original stations was that at ''Stretham''. The EH&SR became the

in 1878 and was absorbed 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 ...

in 1898. Regular passenger trains ceased to call at Stretham on 2 February 1931, but occasional passenger excursion trains used the station until around 1956. It was closed to goods on 13 July 1964. The station featured a single platform, a signal box and a goods loop.

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Stretham station on navigable 1946 O. S. map
{{Closed stations Cambridgeshire Disused railway stations in Cambridgeshire Former Great Eastern Railway stations Railway stations in Great Britain opened in 1866 Railway stations in Great Britain closed in 1931 1866 establishments in England