Ramsey North railway station
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Ramsey North railway station was a railway station in Ramsey, Cambridgeshire
which is now closed.
It was the terminus of a branch line from Holme on the East Coast main line run by the Great Northern Railway
.
on the Great Northern Railway
(GNR). The trains were worked by the GNR.
The Ramsey Railway was acquired by the Great Eastern Railway
(GER) in 1875, who planned to link it to another line that had been authorised in 1865 to run from to Ramsey. Although the latter was eventually built, opening in 1889, the two lines were never connected, and the Somersham line terminated at a different station, latterly known as . The branch from Holme remained physically isolated from the rest of the GER system, and so the GER leased it to the GNR which continued to work it.
On 1 January 1923 the GNR and the GER became constituents of the London and North Eastern Railway
(LNER), which found itself with two stations in Ramsey; they were given new names on 1 July 1923, the ex-Ramsey Railway station becoming Ramsey North.
The station closed to passengers on 6 October 1947 and to freight in December 1973. Ramsey Auction Rooms now occupy the former site.
Ramsey, Cambridgeshire
Ramsey is a small Cambridgeshire market town and parish, north of Huntingdon and St Ives. For local government purposes it lies in the district of Huntingdonshire within the local government county of Cambridgeshire....
which is now closed.
It was the terminus of a branch line from Holme on the East Coast main line run by the Great Northern Railway
Great Northern Railway (Great Britain)
The Great Northern Railway was a British railway company established by the Great Northern Railway Act of 1846. On 1 January 1923 the company lost its identity as a constituent of the newly formed London and North Eastern Railway....
.
History
The station opened on 22 July 1863, as the terminus of the Ramsey Railway, a branch line from HolmeHolme railway station (Cambridgeshire)
-History:The first section of the Great Northern Railway - that from to a junction with the Manchester, Sheffield and Lincolnshire Railway at Grimsby - opened on 1 March 1848, but the southern section of the main line, between and , was not opened until August 1850...
on the Great Northern Railway
Great Northern Railway (Great Britain)
The Great Northern Railway was a British railway company established by the Great Northern Railway Act of 1846. On 1 January 1923 the company lost its identity as a constituent of the newly formed London and North Eastern Railway....
(GNR). The trains were worked by the GNR.
The Ramsey Railway was acquired by the Great Eastern Railway
Great Eastern Railway
The Great Eastern Railway was a pre-grouping British railway company, whose main line linked London Liverpool Street to Norwich and which had other lines through East Anglia...
(GER) in 1875, who planned to link it to another line that had been authorised in 1865 to run from to Ramsey. Although the latter was eventually built, opening in 1889, the two lines were never connected, and the Somersham line terminated at a different station, latterly known as . The branch from Holme remained physically isolated from the rest of the GER system, and so the GER leased it to the GNR which continued to work it.
On 1 January 1923 the GNR and the GER became constituents of the London and North Eastern Railway
London and North Eastern Railway
The London and North Eastern Railway was the second-largest of the "Big Four" railway companies created by the Railways Act 1921 in Britain...
(LNER), which found itself with two stations in Ramsey; they were given new names on 1 July 1923, the ex-Ramsey Railway station becoming Ramsey North.
The station closed to passengers on 6 October 1947 and to freight in December 1973. Ramsey Auction Rooms now occupy the former site.
Route
External links
- Ramsey North station on navigable 1946 O. S. map
- Ramsey North station on Subterranea Britannica