Disused railway lines and closed stations in Cambridgeshire

204 miles of disused railway
81 closed stations
22 stations open today
24 named lost lines

Cambridgeshire has 204 miles of disused railway and 81 closed stations, against 22 stations still open today. More stations have closed here than remain: 3.7 lost for every one still served. The longest lost line is the Peterborough, Wisbech and Sutton Bridge Branch Line M&GN, with 24 miles of its route inside Cambridgeshire.

See Cambridgeshire’s lost railways on the map

The map opens on the county with the disused lines and closed stations drawn over today’s network. Tap any closed station for its history, or any grey line for its name.

What is left of it

The 204 miles of lost railway in Cambridgeshire break down as 136 miles with the track lifted and the trackbed still traceable, 57 miles built over or ploughed out, with little or no trace left and 10 miles with track still in place but no trains. These are OpenStreetMap’s own distinctions, made by the people who surveyed each stretch, so a line can appear under more than one state along its length.

Lost railway lines in Cambridgeshire

24 named lines with disused track in the county, longest stretch first. The mileage is the part inside Cambridgeshire; a line crossing the border is counted on both sides.

Line	Miles in county
Peterborough, Wisbech and Sutton Bridge Branch Line M&GN	24
Bedford to Cambridge Line	16
St Ives to Ely (Sutton) Branch	15
Cambridge Fordham and Mildenhall Line	14
Kettering to Huntingdon Line	13
St Ives Branch	12
March Line	11
Stour Valley Railway	9.2
March and Spalding Line	8.9
Wisbech Goods Branch	8.8
Chesterford to Six Mile Bottom Branch	8.6
Needingworth Junction to March Line	7.5
Stamford to Wansford Branch	7.5
Ramsey Line	6.7
Ramsey North Branch	5.7
Huntingdon & Saint Ives Branch	5.7
Benwick Goods Railway	5.0
Whitemoor Yard	3.9
Shelford to Haverhill via Bartlow Line	3.3
Burwell Tramway	2.5
Cambridge Coldham Lane Junction and Haughley Junction Line	1.2
Thrapston to Orton Mere Branch	0.8
Wisbech and Upwell Tramway	0.7
Seaton to Wansford Branch	0.4

Closed railway stations in Cambridgeshire

All 81 closed and former stations in Cambridgeshire, A to Z. Each name opens the map on the station; the Wikipedia link, where there is one, has its history.

Stations still open in Cambridgeshire

22 stations in Cambridgeshire still have a train service. The busiest are Cambridge (10.6 million a year), Peterborough (5.3 million a year), Ely (2.3 million a year), Huntingdon (1.6 million a year) and Cambridge North (1.5 million a year). Every one has its own page, with the stations you can reach from it directly and how often the trains run: see the A to Z of stations.

Lost railways nearby

Bedfordshire, Rutland, Northamptonshire, Hertfordshire, Norfolk, Suffolk, Essex and Buckinghamshire.

About these figures

The disused lines are the stretches OpenStreetMap records as disused, abandoned, razed or dismantled railway, measured segment by segment and given to the county each segment lies in. The closed stations are Wikidata’s record of British railway stations no longer in service, kept where they are not within a few hundred metres of a station still open. County boundaries are today’s ceremonial counties, with unitary authorities folded into the county they sit in, from the Office for National Statistics (Open Government Licence v3.0; contains OS data © Crown copyright and database right 2024). Historic county lines were different, and a closed station a mile over the border is on the neighbouring page.

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