Acrow Halt railway station

Acrow Halt
Location
Place	Saffron Walden
Area	Uttlesford
Coordinates	52°01′37″N 0°15′51″E / 52.0269°N 0.2641°ECoordinates: 52°01′37″N 0°15′51″E / 52.0269°N 0.2641°E
Grid reference	TL554389
Operations
Original company	Eastern Region of British Railways
Post-grouping	Eastern Region of British Railways
Platforms	1
History
25 March 1957	Station opens
7 September 1964	Station closes
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Acrow Halt was a railway station on the Saffron Walden Railway. Located near Saffron Walden, Essex, the station was close to the Coronation Works of Acrow Engineering Ltd., which it served between 1957 and 1964.

History

Opened by the Eastern Region of British Railways on 25 March 1957,^[1] it was then closed by the British Railways Board on 7 September 1964,^[1] after a short existence of seven years.

Preceding station	Disused railways			Following station
Ashdon Halt		Eastern Region of British Railways Saffron Walden Railway		Saffron Walden

Notes

1. Butt 1995, p. 13.

Sources

• "Disused Stations". Subterranea Britannica.
• Butt, R. V. J. (1995). The Directory of Railway Stations: details every public and private passenger station, halt, platform and stopping place, past and present (1st ed.). Sparkford: Patrick Stephens Ltd. ISBN 1-8526-0508-1. OCLC 60251199.
• Jowett, Alan (2000). Jowett's Nationalised Railway Atlas (1st ed.). Penryn, Cornwall: Atlantic Transport Publishers. ISBN 0-9068-9999-0. OCLC 228266687.

External links

• Position of Acrow Halt on navigable 1946 O.S. map