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Ashdon Halt
Ashdon Halt in March 2009
General information
Location	Ashdon, Uttlesford England
Platforms	1
Other information
Status	Disused
History
Original company	Great Eastern Railway
Pre-grouping	Great Eastern Railway
Post-grouping	London and North Eastern Railway
Key dates
14 August 1911	Station opens
7 September 1964	Station closes

Ashdon Halt was a railway station on the Saffron Walden Railway. It opened 14 August 1911 and closed 7 September 1964. The halt was approximately 46 miles 44 chains (74.91 km) from London Liverpool Street station.

History

After many campaigns by villagers Ashdon Halt was finally opened by the Great Eastern Railway, it became part of the London and North Eastern Railway during the Grouping of 1923. Passing on to the Eastern Region of British Railways on nationalisation in 1948, it was then closed by the British Railways Board.

Sources

• "Disused Stations". Subterranea Britannica.
• Butt, R. V. J. (October 1995). The Directory of Railway Stations: details every public and private passenger station, halt, platform and stopping place, past and present (1st ed.). Sparkford: Patrick Stephens Ltd. ISBN 978-1-85260-508-7. OCLC 60251199. OL 11956311M.
• Jowett, Alan (2000). Jowett's Nationalised Railway Atlas (1st ed.). Penryn, Cornwall: Atlantic Transport Publishers. ISBN 978-0-906899-99-1. OCLC 228266687.

References

1. "ELR: AEB mileages".
2. "Ashdon Halt". Pocket Book. 10 April 2013. Retrieved 12 December 2018.

External links

• Ashdon Halt station on navigable 1946 O. S. map

52°03′04″N 0°17′41″E / 52.0511°N 0.2946°E / 52.0511; 0.2946

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