Cold Norton railway station

Cold Norton
Location of the former station in 1984
Location
Place	Cold Norton
Area	Maldon
Coordinates	51°40′18″N 0°40′26″E / 51.6718°N 0.6738°ECoordinates: 51°40′18″N 0°40′26″E / 51.6718°N 0.6738°E
Operations
Original company	Great Eastern Railway[1]
Pre-grouping	Great Eastern Railway
Post-grouping	London and North Eastern Railway
Platforms	1
History
1 October 1889[1]	Opened
10 September 1939[1]	Closed
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Cold Norton railway station served the village of Cold Norton, Essex. It was opened in 1889 by the Great Eastern Railway on a single-track branch line from Woodham Ferrers to Maldon West.

It was closed in 1939 but the line remained in use for goods traffic until 1959.^[2]

References

1. 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. p. 65. ISBN 1-8526-0508-1. OCLC 60251199.
2. David St. John Thomas, Henry Patrick White (1968). A Regional History of the Railways of Great Britain. Phoenix House.

External links

• Cold Norton station on navigable 1945 O. S. map
• GER Society webpage containing photograph of the station in 1911

Preceding station	Disused railways			Following station
Barons Lane Halt		Great Eastern Railway Maldon to Woodham Ferrers branch line		Stow St. Mary Halt