Offord and Buckden railway station

Offord and Buckden
ECML express passing Offord & Buckden station and St Peter's Church in 1955
Location
Place	Offord Cluny
Area	Huntingdonshire
Grid reference	TL218671
Operations
Original company	Great Northern Railway
Pre-grouping	Great Northern Railway
Post-grouping	London and North Eastern Railway
History
September 1851	Opened as Offord
1 August 1876	Renamed Offord and Buckden
2 February 1959	Closed
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Offord and Buckden railway station was built by the Great Northern Railway to serve the twin villages of Offord Cluny and Offord D'Arcy in Cambridgeshire, England.

History

A 1914 Railway Clearing House map showing (upper centre) railways in the vicinity of Offord & Buckden

The Great Northern Railway main line from London to Peterborough had opened in 1850 including stations at St. Neots and Huntingdon.^[1] A station between these, named Offord, was opened just over a year later, in September 1851.^[2][3] It was located 56 miles (90 km) from London King's Cross.^[4]

On 1 August 1876 the station was renamed Offord and Buckden.^[3]

The station closed on 2 February 1959.^[3]

Route

Preceding station	Historical railways			Following station
St. Neots Line and station open		Great Northern Railway East Coast Main Line		Huntingdon Line and station open

Notes

1. ^ Butt 1995, pp. 125,204.
2. ^ Conolly 1976, p. 11, section C2.
3. ^ ^{a b c} Butt 1995, p. 176.
4. ^ Yonge 2006, map 15C.

References

• Butt, R.V.J. (1995). The Directory of Railway Stations. Yeovil: Patrick Stephens Ltd. ISBN 1 85260 508 1. R508. 
• Conolly, W. Philip (January 1976). British Railways Pre-Grouping Atlas and Gazetteer (5th ed.). Shepperton: Ian Allan. ISBN 0 7110 0320 3. EX/0176. 
• Yonge, John (September 2006) [1994]. Jacobs, Gerald. ed. 2: Eastern. Railway Track Diagrams (3rd ed.). Bradford on Avon: Trackmaps. ISBN 0 954 9866 2 8. 

Coordinates: 52°16′55″N 0°13′07″W / 52.28197°N 0.21861°W / 52.28197; -0.21861