Elmbridge railway station was a stop on the Wisbech and Upwell Tramway. It was located on the outskirts of Wisbech, Cambridgeshire, though actually in the county of Norfolk being just across the border from Wisbech. It was opened in 1883 to serve nearby settlements and closed to passengers in 1927. The entire tramway line closed to goods in 1966 as part of the Beeching Axe.
| Preceding station | Disused railways | Following station | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wisbech | Upwell Tramway | Boyces Bridge | ||
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“Her personality had an architectonic quality; I think of her when I see some of the great London railway termini, especially St. Pancras, with its soot and turrets, and she overshadowed her own daughters, whom she did not understand—my mother, who liked things to be nice; my dotty aunt. But my mother had not the strength to put even some physical distance between them, let alone keep the old monster at emotional arm’s length.”
—Angela Carter (1940–1992)
“Say first, of God above, or Man below,
What can we reason, but from what we know?
Of Man what see we, but his station here,
From which to reason, or to which refer?
Thro’ worlds unnumber’d tho’ the God be known,
‘Tis ours to trace him only in our own.
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—Alexander Pope (1688–1744)