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A steam train pulls into Soham station, passing a signal box on the left and brick buildings with figures on the platform.

Soham Station

Soham Station

History of Soham Station

1929

Twelve men in suits pose for a group photo in two rows in front of brick building walls displaying LNER railway excursion signs.

Soham Station staff c1929

Photograph at the time of retiring station master, Mr Ellis.

Back row: Herb Edwards, Art Biggs, George Freeman, Alf Palmer, Harry Haymes, Walter Ayres,

Front row: Bert Lander, Tome Ellis (son of station master), Art Bedford, George Barnet, Mont Parker, Ernie Johnson and Percy Leonard.


Steam train entering a station past a wooden signal box with a SOHAM sign, with two men standing on the platform near a building.

Soham Station c1939

Soham Station was destroyed by the explosion of 1944.

See Soham Rail Disaster 1944

The station closed in the 1960s.

Tags

  • London North Eastern Railway
  • railway worker
  • world war two

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