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Chesterton railway station

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which operated an aggregates storage facility, a concrete batching and coated roadstone plants. In 2015, planning permission was granted for the redevelopment of part of Chesterton Sidings for the construction of
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A triangle of land between the St Ives branch and the main line was used at least from 1911 by the permanent way department to store materials and comprised a number of
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The Directory of Railway Stations: details every public and private passenger station, halt, platform and stopping place, past and present
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opened on 17 August 1847. The line was originally double-track but was singled by 1854 before being redoubled in the 1870s.
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Clinker's Register of Closed Passenger Stations and Goods Depots in England, Scotland and Wales 1830–1980
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diesel mechanical locomotives. By 2005, the depot had been abandoned and the site was heavily overgrown.
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over Fen Road stood at the northern end of the bridge until November 1984.
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By 2008, the sidings at Chesterton Junction were in use by
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Railway passenger stations in Great Britain: a chronology
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Adderson, Richard; Kenworthy, Graham (October 2005).
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Chesterton
Cambridge
52°13′19″N 0°09′26″E / 52.222°N 0.1573°E / 52.222; 0.1573
Eastern Counties Railway
Cambridge
Histon
Eastern Counties Railway
Wisbech, St. Ives and Cambridge Junction Railway Act 1846
9 & 10 Vict.
Wisbech, St Ives and Cambridge Junction Railway
St Ives
King's Lynn to Cambridge line
flag station
River Cam
signal box
level crossing
sidings
Second World War
Ruston and Hornsby
Historical railways
Histon
Eastern Counties Railway
Wisbech, St Ives and Cambridge Jcn Rly
Cambridge
Waterbeach
Eastern Counties Railway
King's Lynn to Cambridge
Lafarge
Cambridge North railway station

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