Place Arlesey Platforms ? | Grid reference TL189355 Original company Great Northern Railway | |
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Area District of Central Bedfordshire Post-grouping London and North Eastern Railway 1 April 1866 Station opens as Arlesey Siding Similar Fairfield Hospital - Bedfordshire, Henlow Camp railway st, Blunham railway station, Chaul End railway station, Sharnbrook railway station | ||
Three Counties railway station is a disused railway station near Arlesey in Bedfordshire, England. It served the southern environs of Arlesey. These included the Three Counties Lunatic Asylum, which was finally subsequently known as the Fairfield Hospital. The station was north of Hitchin on the "London-Peterborough" line. It opened in 1866, and closed to passengers in 1959.
History
The station was opened by the Great Northern Railway (GNR) on 1 April 1866, originally being named Arlesey Siding. On 1 July 1886, the station was renamed Three Counties, taking its new name from the nearby Three Counties Asylum, which itself was so named because it was a joint project of three counties - Hertfordshire, Bedfordshire and Huntingdonshire.
The GNR became part of the London and North Eastern Railway during the Grouping of 1923. The station then passed on to the Eastern Region of British Railways on nationalisation in 1948.
The station was closed to passengers, together with the adjacent Arlesey station, on 5 January 1959 and goods on 28 November 1960. This was due to declining receipts. Arlesey, however, later re-opened.