Fen Ditton: where the railway ran
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Image: © John Sutton Taken: 28 Apr 2021
The area ahead, recently cleared, was the trackbed of the Cambridge to Mildenhall railway line, which closed in 1964. Image] was taken across the field to the left in 2010, when the trackbed was overgrown but nevertheless used as a shaded path. The bridge which crossed the railway here was removed long ago, as were all traces of the tiny Fen Ditton Halt (behind the camera), which the late Walter Dendy photographed before the War: Image