Cambridge South railway station
History: specify that Barnwell Junction station closed to passengers in 1962. also replaced disused stations source with one from CambridgeLive
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A temporary station, Trumpington railway station, was once located approximately {{convert|570|m|abbr=on}} north of the current Cambridge South station site. It was specifically constructed for the [[Royal Agricultural Society of England|Royal Agricultural Society]]'s show for four days between 4 July and 8 July 1922. After the event concluded, the station was then permanently demolished. Nothing of the original station survives or is visible today.{{Cite web |title=Disused Stations: Trumpington Station |url=http://www.disused-stations.org.uk/t/trumpington/index.shtml |access-date=2025-01-02 |website=disused-stations.org.uk}} |
A temporary station, Trumpington railway station, was once located approximately {{convert|570|m|abbr=on}} north of the current Cambridge South station site. It was specifically constructed for the [[Royal Agricultural Society of England|Royal Agricultural Society]]'s show for four days between 4 July and 8 July 1922. After the event concluded, the station was then permanently demolished. Nothing of the original station survives or is visible today.{{Cite web |title=Disused Stations: Trumpington Station |url=http://www.disused-stations.org.uk/t/trumpington/index.shtml |access-date=2025-01-02 |website=disused-stations.org.uk}} |
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Between 1962, when [[Barnwell Junction railway station|Barnwell Junction station]] closed to passengers (and to goods four years later),{{cite news |last1=Findlay |first1=Cait |title=Lost Cambridge station now a private home only visible from trains to Ely |url=https://www.cambridge-news.co.uk/news/history/lost-cambridge-station-now-private-28488932 |access-date=27 April 2026 |work=Cambridgeshire Live |date=27 January 2024 |language=en}} and 2017, when [[Cambridge North railway station|Cambridge North station]] opened, [[Cambridge railway station|Cambridge station]] was the only passenger railway station serving the city of Cambridge.{{Cite news |date=2017-05-21 |title=Delayed £50m Cambridge North railway station opens |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-cambridgeshire-39974167 |access-date=2025-01-02 |work=BBC News |language=en-GB |archive-date=14 January 2025 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250114120821/https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-cambridgeshire-39974167 |url-status=live }} |
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