Smeeth Road railway station

Infobox UK disused station
name = Smeeth Road
gridref = TF521094


caption = Former station building in 2005.
manager = East Anglian Railway
Great Eastern Railway
owner = London and North Eastern Railway
Eastern Region of British Railways
locale = Marshland St James nr Wisbech
borough = Fenland, Cambridgeshire
platforms = ?
years = 1 March 1848
events = Opened
years2 = 9 September 1968
events2 = Closed [Butt, R.V.J. (1995). "The Directory of Railway Stations", Patrick Stephens Ltd, Sparkford, ISBN 1-85260-508-1, p. 213.]

Smeeth Road was a railway station serving the village of Marshland St James near Wisbech in Norfolk, England. The station was opened in 1848 as an extension of the East Anglian Railway's line from Magdalen Road station (now known as Watlington) to Wisbech East. The station's location, like that of the neighbouring Middle Drove station, was fairly rural and the line eventually closed in 1968, a casualty of the Beeching Axe. [Cite book | author=Oppitz, Leslie | authorlink= | coauthors= | title=Lost Railways of East Anglia (Lost Railways) | date=1999 | publisher=Countryside Books | location=Newbury, Berkshire | isbn=1-85306-595-1 | pages=p. 19] Smeeth Road's station building survived closure, and has since been converted into a private residence.

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