Wimblington railway station
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Wimblington railway station was a station in the village of Wimblington
, Cambridgeshire
. It was closed in 1967 as part of the Beeching Axe
.The station was demolished in the early 1970s and the site used for the construction of the new alignment of the A141 road.
Wimblington
Wimblington is a village in Cambridgeshire, England, with a population of 1700 as of the 2001 census.-History:Formerly a hamlet of the large Doddington parish, in 1874 it became a separate parish and a new church, St...
, 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...
. It was closed in 1967 as part of the Beeching Axe
Beeching Axe
The Beeching Axe or the Beeching Cuts are informal names for the British Government's attempt in the 1960s to reduce the cost of running British Railways, the nationalised railway system in the United Kingdom. The name is that of the main author of The Reshaping of British Railways, Dr Richard...
.The station was demolished in the early 1970s and the site used for the construction of the new alignment of the A141 road.