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Acrow Halt railway station

Disused railway station in Saffron Walden, Essex

52°01′37″N 0°15′51″E / 52.0269°N 0.2641°E / 52.0269; 0.2641Grid referenceTL554389Platforms1Other informationStatusDisusedHistoryOriginal companyEastern Region of British RailwaysPost-groupingEastern Region of British RailwaysKey dates25 March 1957Station opens7 September 1964Station closes

Acrow Halt was a railway station on the Saffron Walden Railway. Located at the north-eastern edge of Saffron Walden, Essex, the station was close to the Coronation Works of Acrow Engineering Ltd., which it served between 1957 and 1964. The station was approximately 44 miles 27 chains (71.35 km) from London Liverpool Street station.^[1]

History

Acrow railway station was named after the nearby Acrow Works. The name Acrow derived from the name of Arthur Crow, the solicitor of William Aphonse de Vigier who was the owner of the factory and the inventor of the Acrow prop.^[2]^[3] Opened by the Eastern Region of British Railways on 25 March 1957,^[4] it was then closed by the British Railways Board on 7 September 1964,^[4] 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

^ "ELR: AEB mileages".
^ "Acrow (Engineers)". gracesguide.co.uk. Grace's Guide to British Industrial History. 19 May 2020. Retrieved 16 April 2021.
^ "Acrow (Engineers): Tenth Anniversary Brochure". gracesguide.co.uk. Grace's Guide to British Industrial History. 1946. p. 8. Retrieved 16 April 2021.
^ ^a ^b Butt 1995, p. 13.

Sources

"Disused Stations". Subterranea Britannica.
Butt, R. V. J. (October 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 978-1-85260-508-7. OCLC 60251199. OL 11956311M.
Jowett, Alan (2000). Jowett's Nationalised Railway Atlas (1st ed.). Penryn, Cornwall: Atlantic Transport Publishers. ISBN 978-0-906899-99-1. OCLC 228266687.

External links

Position of Acrow Halt on navigable 1946 O.S. map
Walls, John (April 2013). "Coronation Works sidings Saffron Walden". disused-stations.org.uk. Disused stations site record. Retrieved 16 April 2021. (Images of the former Acrow railway station site as of 2013)
King, Mel (16 November 2020). "The 15 abandoned railway stations that lie unused in Essex: Acrow Halt railway station". Essex Live. essexlive.news. Retrieved 16 April 2021.