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A postcard view of a quiet railway station with long brick platforms, overhanging wooden canopies, and multiple train tracks.

Ely Station c1910

Ely Railway Station

History of Ely Railway Station

1905

Accident at Ely 26/9/1905

https://www.railwaysarchive.co.uk/docsummary.php?docID=2542


Sunlit railway station platforms with overhead wires, brick buildings, and people waiting under long, covered canopies.

Ely Railway Station (DG 2022)

Then and Now (DG)

The Station was opened in 1845 by the Eastern Counties Railway company. It sits on the Fen Line which runs between Cambridge and Kings Lynn. It used to continue on to Hunstanton, but that section of line was closed in 1969. Ely station was modified by British Rail in the early 1990s. It was during this modification that the space for three tracks between the platforms was reduced to two lines and the lines were electrified.


A long railway platform with a covered roof, brick station buildings, and a few people standing beside railway tracks.

Ely Railway Station date unknown

 

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