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Three Counties railway station

Three Counties
Station site in 2010.
General information
Location	Arlesey, District of Central Bedfordshire England
Grid reference	TL189355
Platforms	2
Other information
Status	Disused
History
Original company	Great Northern Railway
Post-grouping	London and North Eastern Railway
Key dates
1 April 1866	Station opens as Arlesey Siding
1 July 1886	Station renamed Three Counties
5 January 1959	Station closes

Three Counties railway station is a disused railway station near ArleseyinBedfordshire, 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.

The station was opened by the Great Northern Railway (GNR) on 1 April 1866, originally being named Arlesey Siding.^[1] On 1 July 1886, the station was renamed Three Counties,^[1][2] 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.^[3][4]

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 Railwaysonnationalisation in 1948.

The station was closed to passengers, together with the adjacent Arlesey station, on 5 January 1959^[1][2] and goods on 28 November 1960.^[5] This was due to declining receipts. Arlesey, however, later re-opened.

• Butt, R. V. J. (October 1995). The Directory of Railway Stations: details every public and private passenger station, halt, platform and stopping place, past and present (1st ed.). Sparkford: Patrick Stephens Ltd. ISBN 978-1-85260-508-7. OCLC 60251199. OL 11956311M.
• Jowett, Alan (2000). Jowett's Nationalised Railway Atlas (1st ed.). Penryn, Cornwall: Atlantic Transport Publishers. ISBN 978-0-906899-99-1. OCLC 228266687.

• Station on navigable O.S. map

52°00′22″N 0°16′07″W / 52.0060°N 0.2687°W / 52.0060; -0.2687