Chatteris railway station

Chatteris
General information
Location	Chatteris, Fenland England
Grid reference	TL387860
Platforms	2
Other information
Status	Disused
History
Original company	Eastern Counties Railway
Pre-grouping	Great Northern and Great Eastern Joint Railway
Post-grouping	London and North Eastern Railway
Key dates
1 February 1848 (1848-02-01)	Opened
18 April 1966	Closed to freight
6 March 1967	Closed to passengers

Chatteris railway station was a station in Chatteris, Cambridgeshire on the line between St Ives and March, which was built as a branch of the Great Eastern Railway in 1848 and was later incorporated (on 6 March 1882) into the Great Northern and Great Eastern Joint Railway, a more major route between Huntingdon and Doncaster via Lincoln, which included a new line between Spalding and Lincoln.

The railway through Chatteris was closed to passengers on 6 March 1967, in the wake of the Beeching Report, along with the joint line between March and St Ives. The part of the joint line between St Ives and Huntingdon had already closed to passengers on 15 June 1959, but St Ives retained the line to Cambridge until 1970. On 29 November 1982 the part of the joint line between March and Spalding was closed, but the route north of Spalding still exists, with services routed via Peterborough.

Chatteris station was demolished in the early 1970s and the station site and trackbed used for the new alignment of the A141 road.

Preceding station		Disused railways		Following station
Somersham		Great Eastern Railway St Ives to March Line		Wimblington

External links

• Chatteris station on navigable 1946 O. S. map