Barons Lane Halt railway station

Barons Lane Halt
Location
Place Purleigh
Area Maldon
Grid reference TL846025
Operations
Original company Great Eastern Railway[1]
Pre-grouping Great Eastern Railway
Post-grouping London and North Eastern Railway
Platforms 1
History
10 July 1922[1] Opened
10 September 1939[1] Closed
Disused railway stations in the United Kingdom
Closed railway stations in Britain
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Barons Lane Halt railway station was a halt that served the village of Purleigh, Essex. It was 4 miles 24 chains (6.92 km) from Wickford Junction.[2] The sidings at this location were opened with the line on 1 October 1889[3], but the halt was not opened until 10 July 1922 by the Great Eastern Railway on the branch line (Engineer's Line Reference WFM) from Woodham Ferrers to Maldon West Halt.

It was closed in September 1939 but the line remained in use for goods traffic until 1959.[4] Vic Mitchell says that freight traffic ceased on 1 April 1953.[3]

References

  1. 1 2 3 Butt, R. V. J. (1995). The Directory of Railway Stations: details every public and private passenger station, halt, platform and stopping place, past and present (1st ed.). Sparkford: Patrick Stephens Ltd. p. 28. ISBN 978-1-85260-508-7. OCLC 60251199.
  2. ↑ "ELR railway codes".
  3. 1 2 Mitchell, Vic (2010). Branch Lines to Southend and Southminster. Midhurst Sussex: Middleton Press. ISBN 978-1-906008-76-5.
  4. ↑ David St. John Thomas, Henry Patrick White (1968). A Regional History of the Railways of Great Britain. Phoenix House.
Preceding station Disused railways Following station
Maldon West Halt   Great Eastern Railway
Maldon to Woodham Ferrers branch line		   Cold Norton

Coordinates: 51°41′26″N 0°40′12″E / 51.6906°N 0.6701°E / 51.6906; 0.6701


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