Place Girtford, near Sandy Grid reference TL164503 July 1938 Renamed Girtford Halt Platforms in use 1 | Area Central Bedfordshire 1 January 1938 Opened as Girtford 17 November 1940 Closed to passengers | |
Original company London, Midland and Scottish Railway Similar Potton railway station, Blunham railway station, Chaul End railway station, Southill railway station, Wolvercote Halt railway st | ||
Girtford Halt was a short-lived railway halt on the Varsity Line which served the hamlet of Girtford near Sandy in Bedfordshire, England. It was opened by the London, Midland and Scottish Railway in 1938, but closed to passenger traffic two years later in 1940. The line itself closed in 1968, and the site of the railway station has been obliterated by a roundabout.
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History
In January 1938, the LMSR opened Girtford Halt at the point where the A1 crossed the Varsity Line, a little to the north of the small hamlet from which it took its name. A siding for vegetable traffic had existed on the station site since 1863 and this remained open. Passenger facilities consisted of little more than a raised concrete platform; access was via a field to the rear of the station; tickets had to be purchased from a nearby garage. The station was, however, little used and passenger services were withdrawn in November 1940, the station remaining open for freight until 1951.
Present day
No trace of the station remains and its site has been taken over by a roundabout on Georgetown Road, a new road skirting the London Road Industrial Estate.