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More info × Group 28 Thank you for subscribing! We have more newsletters Show Me No thanks, close See our Privacy Notice Cambridgeshire has an abundance of lost railway lines and stations that were frequently quite short lived. But this railway station might be the shortest lived of them all, as it was only open for five days. The now demolished Trumpington station, built in 1922, was located around half a mile south of Cambridge station between the railway line and what is now a guided busway but at the time was also a railway track.
Trumpington station was built specifically for the Royal Show, an annual event held by the Royal Agricultural Society of England. The event started in 1839 and visited various locations across the UK, including Cambridge several times. READ MORE: Developer gets green light to build two new floors on top of Cambridge block of flats READ MORE: Teenager who died in Cambridge lake tragedy named as school remembers 'cherished' student Trumpington station was between what is now the guided busway and the railway line (Image: Google) The Royal Show soon became a huge affair that attracted exhibitors and visitors from all over the country.
The show allowed people to not only show off their livestock, horses, and produce but also new agricultural technology and the latest business methods. Many of the visitors were famous engineers and used the show as an opportunity to demonstrate their new machinery that would help improve farming methods such as self-propelled steam engines and agricultural implements. Exhibitors relied on railways to transport their livestock and machinery across the country and so Trumpington station was built to help get these things to the showground in Cambridge.
There were a few passenger trains that stopped at the station but most contained exhibitors' produce - with the station opening on July 4 and closing on July 8, 1922. A further three shows were held in Trumpington in 1951, 1960, and 1961 but on the south side of Long Road. It is these shows that brought about the name of the local road, Showground road, which is now a residential area.
Attendance for the 1922 show was fairly poor owing to the bad weather but it ran smoothly thanks to Trumpington station. The station was run by Great Eastern railway for the full five days it was open. Story Saved You can find this story in My Bookmarks.
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