Place Capel St Mary Pre-grouping Great Eastern Railway Platforms in use 1 | Area Suffolk 2 Sep 1847 Opened | |
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Original company Eastern Union & Hadleigh Junction Railway Post-grouping London and North Eastern Railway Similar Bentley (Suffolk) railway st, Claydon (Suffolk) railway st, Bramford railway station, Hadleigh railway station, Horham railway station | ||
Capel railway station was a station in Capel St Mary, Suffolk, on a short branch line from Bentley Junction to Hadleigh. The station buildings were remarkably ornate for a village with a population of 649 in 1851 and 504 in 1931. There were goods sidings on the northern side of the station,which were used extensively in World War II handling supplies to a nearby United States Army Air Forces base, later known as RAF Raydon.
The line opened in 1847 and closed to passenger traffic in 1932, with freight services lingering on until 1965.
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