Long Stanton railway station

Long Stanton railway station was a station on the Great Eastern Railway, between Cambridge and Huntingdon. It served the villages of Longstanton and Willingham (being roughly midway between them), until closure in October 1970.^[1] The station was immortalised in 1964 in the song "Slow Train" by Flanders and Swann.

Long Stanton
Long Stanton station building, with a bus travelling on the guided busway, October 2019
General information
Location	Cambridgeshire, Huntingdonshire England
Platforms	2
Other information
Status	Disused
History
Pre-grouping	Great Eastern Railway
Post-grouping	London and North Eastern Railway British Railways
Key dates
19 August 1847	Opened
5 October 1970	Closed

The railway line through Long Stanton remained open for freight trains from Cambridge to St Ives, Cambridgeshire, until 1992. The track was removed and one platform demolished in 2007, due to construction of the Cambridgeshire Guided Busway; however, the station building remains in private ownership. Parts from the platforms were preserved for re-use on the Mid-Norfolk Railway.

Preceding station		Disused railways		Following station
Swavesey		Great Eastern Railway		Oakington