Hockerill Halt railway station

Hockerill Halt railway station was a station serving the Hockerill area of Bishop's Stortford in East Hertfordshire in England. The station was 1 mile 29 chains (2.19 km) from Bishop's Stortford on the Bishop's Stortford to Braintree branch line (Engineer's Line Reference BSB).

Hockerill Halt
Location
Place	Hockerill
Area	East Hertfordshire
Coordinates	51.8695°N 0.1797°E / 51.8695; 0.1797
Grid reference	TL502211
Operations
Original company	Great Eastern Railway
Pre-grouping	Great Eastern Railway
Post-grouping	London and North Eastern Railway
Platforms	1
History
7 November 1910	Station opened
3 March 1952	Station closed
Disused railway stations in the United Kingdom
Closed railway stations in Britain A B C D–F G H–J K–L M–O P–R S T–V W–Z

Services began on 7 November 1910 and ended on 3 March 1952.

The station along with almost all the intermediate stations on the Bishop's Stortford-Braintree branch were little used. The station is extremely close to the Main line station Bishops Stortford. It was built to serve the Bishop's Stortford Golf Club but it was also open to the public.

It closed to passengers along with the rest of the branch.[1]

The halt consisted of a low platform of made up ground, with telephone access to the signalman at Bishops Stortford.

It was partially restored in 2012 by the Friends of the Flitch Way - however this was not evident when visited in 2019.[2]

References

1. "Disused Stations". Subterranea Britannica.
2. Whitewick's Abandoned Railways (5 July 2019), Worlds Smallest Abandoned Station? - The Flitch way - Episode 16, retrieved 6 July 2019

Further reading

• Peter Paye (2010). Bishop's Stortford, Dunmow and Braintree Branch. Oakwood Press. ISBN 978-0853617082.

Preceding station		Disused railways		Following station
Bishop's Stortford Line closed, station open		Great Eastern Railway Bishop's Stortford-Braintree Branch Line		Stane Street Halt Line and station closed