Abbots Ripton railway station

Abbots Ripton
Location
Location	Huntingdon
Area	Cambridgeshire
Operations
Original company	Great Northern Railway
Pre-grouping	Great Northern Railway
Post-grouping	London and North Eastern Railway
Platforms	?
History
November 1, 1885	Station opens as Abbotts Ripton
January 21, 1876	Abbots Ripton rail disaster
? 1938	Station renamed Abbots Ripton
September 15, 1958	Station closes
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Abbots Ripton railway station was a railway station on the East Coast Main Line in the English county of Cambridgeshire. Although trains still pass on the now electrified railway the station closed in 1958.

Opened by the Great Northern Railway as Abbotts Ripton it became part of the London and North Eastern Railway during the Grouping of 1923. Renamed Abbots Ripton, the station then passed on to the Eastern Region of British Railways on nationalisation in 1948, and was closed by the British Transport Commission ten years later.

Abbots Ripton rail disaster

This occurred at the station on 21 January 1876, when the Flying Scotsman express train from Edinburgh to London was involved in a double collision during a blizzard. There were thirteen fatalities, and 53 passengers and 6 traincrew members were injured.

Report of the Court of Enquiry [1]

References

• R.V.J.Butt, (1995). The Directory of Railway Stations. Patrick Stephens Ltd.  ISBN 1 85260 508 1

• A. Jowett, (2000). Jowett's Nationalised Railway Atlas. Atlantic Publishing.  ISBN 0 906899 99 0

Preceding station	National Rail			Following station
Huntingdon		East Coast Main Line Great Northern Railway Line Open Station Closed		Holme