Barons Lane Halt railway station

Barons Lane Halt
Location
Place	Purleigh
Area	Maldon
Operations
Original company	Great Eastern Railway[1]
Pre-grouping	Great Eastern Railway
Post-grouping	London and North Eastern Railway
Platforms	1
History
10 July 1922[1]	Opened
10 September 1939[1]	Closed
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Barons Lane Halt railway station was a halt that served the village of Purleigh, Essex. It was opened in 1922 by the Great Eastern Railway on a branch line from Woodham Ferrers to Maldon West Halt.

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. 28. 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

• History of the Crouch valley Line
• Barons Lane Halt on navigable old O. S. map
• GER Society webpage containing photograph of the station in the 1920s

Preceding station	Disused railways			Following station
Maldon West Halt		Great Eastern Railway Maldon to Woodham Ferrers branch line		Cold Norton

Coordinates: 51°41′26″N 0°40′12″E / 51.6906°N 0.6701°E