Place Six Mile Bottom Grid reference TL577567 Platforms in use 2 | Area South Cambridgeshire Pre-grouping Great Eastern Railway | |
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Post-grouping London and North Eastern Railway 4 Apr 1848 Opened as Westley
(to Great Chesterford) Original company Newmarket and Chesterford Railway Similar Cherryhinton railway station, Wisbech St Mary railway st, Grafham railway station, Wilburton railway station, Guyhirne railway station | ||
Six mile bottom railway station closed 1967
Six Mile Bottom railway station is a disused railway station on the Ipswich to Cambridge line between Dullingham and Fulbourn. It served the village of Six Mile Bottom, until closure in January 1967. The station buildings and one platform remain as a private residence. Although the station is closed, the line remains in use by trains between Ipswich and Cambridge.
The Newmarket and Chesterford Railway opened the station in 1848 on its line which connected Newmarket and Great Chesterford. They had also commenced work on a line that would link Six Mile Bottom to Cambridge after which the company then intended to extend further with a line to Thetford which would give a more direct route to Norwich. The Eastern Counties Railway (ECR) who operated trains via Cambridge to Norwich were not happy with this and put pressure on the Newmarket Railway leading them to cease trading in June 1850.
However, under the leadership of bankruptcy commissioner Cecil Fane, the company was re-established in September of the same year and instead the line from Six Mile Bottom to Cambridge was completed using the track from the Chesterford – Six Mile Bottom section. This line then opened on 9 October 1851 and the Chesterford route was closed.