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Hilgay railway station

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Place
  
Hilgay

Grid reference
  
TL589961

25 October 1847
  
Opened as Hilgay Fen

Platforms in use
  
2

Area
  
Norfolk

Pre-grouping
  
Great Eastern Railway

Original company
  
Ely railway station

Post-grouping
  
London and North Eastern Railway

Similar
  
Redenhall railway station, Starston railway station, Docking railway station, Ditchingham railway station, Narborough and Pentney r

Hilgay railway station was a station in Hilgay, Norfolk, which is now closed. It was on the Fen Line between King's Lynn and Cambridge. It was closed in 1963 along with nearby Stow Bardolph.

Accident

  • On 1 June 1939, a passenger train was in collision with a lorry on an occupation crossing just north of the station and was derailed.

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    Hilgay railway station Wikipedia
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