Hadleigh railway station

Hadleigh
Hadleigh railway station in 2011
Location
Place	Hadleigh
Area	Suffolk
Coordinates	52°02′27″N 0°57′38″E / 52.0407°N 0.9605°E / 52.0407; 0.9605Coordinates: 52°02′27″N 0°57′38″E / 52.0407°N 0.9605°E / 52.0407; 0.9605
Operations
Original company	Eastern Union & Hadleigh Junction Railway
Pre-grouping	Great Eastern Railway
Post-grouping	London and North Eastern Railway
Platforms	1
History
2 September 1847	Opened
29 February 1932	Closed to passengers
1965	closed to freight
Disused railway stations in the United Kingdom
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Hadleigh railway station was a station in Hadleigh, Suffolk, the terminus of the Hadleigh Railway, a short branch line from Bentley Junction.

The terminus had goods sidings on both the south-western and north-eastern sides. The latter serving malthouses and which were also used as a running round loop. There was also a small engine shed.

The station building was very ornate, if somewhat dwarfed by the adjacent malthouses, with attractive coupled chimneys and unusual windows with the frame and arch of stone.

The decline in passenger numbers using the branch can be seen in the sales figures from 1923 which were 14,447 compared to 5,086 just five years later in 1928.

The line to Hadleigh opened in 1847 and closed to passenger traffic in 1932, with freight services lingering on until 1965. Intermediate stations were at Capel and Raydon.

The station building still stands and is in use as a private residence.

A proposal to extend services by building a light railway between Hadleigh and Long Melford was reported in the Haverhill Echo on 10 March 1900, but this wasn't built.