Kennett Railway Station
Kennett is a railway station serving the village of Kentford in Cambridgeshire, England. It opened in 1854 when the railway was extended from Newmarket to Bury St Edmunds. At its peak during the period 1860 to 1890 there was a station master and three other members of staff.
During a heavy storm in 1968, the original brick bridge that crosses the River Kennett east of the station was washed away isolating the line for several days whilst a new metal structure was constructed to replace it.
The station closed to freight traffic in 1965 although a Speedlink rail service continued to serve the granary behind the station until the mid 1980s. Further east of the station a siding serves Lafarge aggregate, providing sugar stone for British Sugar.
In 1967 the station became an unstaffed halt on the Cambridge-Ipswich line and the main station buildings were demolished - although, similar to Dullingham, parts of the original building remained to serve as storage for the signal box and line side maintenance; these can be found at the entrance to platform 1 and further along platform 2.
Since the closure and removal of the signal box and the replacement of the semaphore signals on 11 November 2011, with the movement of signal control to Bury St Edmunds Yard following further modernisation of the line to cope with increased line capacity, a new temporary footbridge has been constructed.
Read more about Kennett Railway Station: Historical Services, Train Services
Famous quotes containing the words railway and/or station:
“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)
“[T]here is no situation so deplorable ... as that of a gentlewoman in real poverty.... Birth, family, and education become misfortunes when we cannot attain some means of supporting ourselves in the station they throw us into. Our friends and former acquaintances look on it as a disgrace to own us.... If we were to attempt getting our living by any trade, people in that station would think we were endeavoring to take their bread out of their mouths.”
—Sarah Fielding (1710–1768)