Chesterton Junction Railway Yard
Photos - 50.
Where - Cambridge, Cambridgeshire.
Visited - April 2006.
Posted - 12 August 2006.
Categories -
urbex, railway.
This railway yard is on the outskirts of Cambridge. It was primarily used as a depot to assemble new track panels and concrete sleepers. In later years it was used for general freight.
Not much remains on site now - a few old buildings and a couple of wagons. A couple of aggregate trains visit every week - one area of the yard has been taken over by a huge pile of stones. The old control tower used to occupy this area 
Weighbridge
The weighbridge was used for.. ugh, weighing wagons. If they were too heavy then they wouldn't be allowed out.. The face of the scales has been smashed up by scallies.
Assembly Shed
This was used to assemble track panels I think. A small narrow gauge railway also entered the shed at one end. There is also a boiler and (huge) fuse panel inside..
Wagons
Three railway wagons were on site - an old coal hopper and the burnt out frames of two old vans.
Back in 1999 over 100 wagons were on site but these have been cut up. Some remains of the cut up vehicles are still evident, including an old crane.
Other buildings
There are a few other buildings of interest. One seems to be a mess (both meanings of the word).
And the others are buildings. I'm not sure what they were for.
Random junk
Some random bits were scattered around...
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Posted 21 October 2006, 13:10 From matt
wicked place. a few years back there used to be more buildings and lots of trains. pretty much lived there when i was a kid.
matt
Posted 25 March 2007, 15:20 From Andrew
I last went there in '99 (as staff), its really gone to ground now - I believe because there was a protected bird nesting there so they couldn't clear the land for houses. Are the graffetied wagons there still - used to be some great murals on them. Thanks for the pics
Posted 1 March 2008, 20:30 From john turner
I think the site was very interesting, does the land still belong to B R If not what is going to happen to it.
the last time i went to chesterton junction was about 49 years ago i was about 10 yeaqrs old we went to see if we could get train numbers, that was in the steam days
regads
john
Posted 18 July 2008, 22:50 From Lynda
My great great grandfather worked on the railway and lived at Chesterton junction at the end of the 19th century. would be interested to hear from any one who might have some more info
Posted 21 September 2008, 14:00 From Reid E. Ramone
Hey! Excellent site! Came across it by randomly searching Chesterton Junction in Google. Good to see the photos. Used to spend a lot of time there as a kid in the 70's. Lived on Long Reach Road and our house backed onto the junction. Remember there being 03's and 08's in the yard and 37's going past on the St Ives line. Used to hang out on the waste ground near the signal box and went up there to pull levers and stuff on occasions. Ah, and then there were the diversion days when Deltics would get re-routed through past the junction. Indeed they were good times!
Reid E. Ramone.
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