Three Counties railway station

Three Counties
265px Station site in 2010.
Location
Place	Arlesey
Area	District of Central Bedfordshire
Grid reference	TL189355
Operations
Original company	Great Northern Railway
Post-grouping	London and North Eastern Railway
Platforms	?
History
1 April 1866	Station opens as Arlesey Siding
1 July 1886	Station renamed Three Counties
5 January 1959	Station closes
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Three Counties railway station is a disused railway station near Arlesey in Bedfordshire, England. It served the southern environs of Arlesey. These included the Three Counties Lunatic Asylum, which was finally subsequently known as the Fairfield Hospital. The station was north of Hitchin on the "London-Peterborough" line. It opened in 1866, and closed to passengers in 1959.

History

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A 1902 Railway Clearing House map of railways in the vicinity of Three Counties (upper right)

The station was opened by the Great Northern Railway (GNR) on 1 April 1866, originally being named Arlesey Siding. On 1 July 1886, the station was renamed Three Counties, taking its new name from the nearby Three Counties Asylum, which itself was so named because it was a joint project of three counties - Hertfordshire, Bedfordshire and Huntingdonshire.

The GNR became part of the London and North Eastern Railway during the Grouping of 1923. The station then passed on to the Eastern Region of British Railways on nationalisation in 1948.

The station was closed to passengers, together with the adjacent Arlesey station, on 5 January 1959 and goods on 28 November 1960. This was due to declining receipts. Arlesey, however, later re-opened.

External links

• Station on navigable O.S. map

Preceding station	Historical railways			Following station
Hitchin Line and station open		Great Northern Railway East Coast Main Line		Arlesey Line and station open