Bainton Gate railway station
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Bainton Gate railway station was a short lived railway "station" in Cambridgeshire
Cambridgeshire
Cambridgeshire is a county in England, bordering Lincolnshire to the north, Norfolk to the northeast, Suffolk to the east, Essex and Hertfordshire to the south, and Bedfordshire and Northamptonshire to the west...

 on the Syston and Peterborough Railway
Syston and Peterborough Railway
The Syston and Peterborough Railway was an early railway in England opened between 1845 and 1848 to form a branch from the Midland Counties Railway at Syston just north of Leicester to Peterborough.-Origins:...

 serving the village of Bainton
Bainton, Cambridgeshire
Bainton is a village and civil parish in the City of Peterborough unitary authority in Cambridgeshire, England. It lies between Peterborough and Stamford. Ashton is a neighbouring hamlet included in the civil parish. At the time of the 2001 census, the parish's population was 305 people.-External...

. It was located at the level crossing on the Bainton
Bainton, Cambridgeshire
Bainton is a village and civil parish in the City of Peterborough unitary authority in Cambridgeshire, England. It lies between Peterborough and Stamford. Ashton is a neighbouring hamlet included in the civil parish. At the time of the 2001 census, the parish's population was 305 people.-External...

 to Tallington
Tallington
Tallington is a small village of around 200 houses, situated four miles east of Stamford in South Kesteven, on the southern edge of Lincolnshire, next to the borough of Peterborough.-Geography:...

 road. The crossing keeper's cottage survives and is now a private house. According to The Syston and Peterborough website, this cottage doubled as the station building.The station closed on 1 August 1856.
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