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Former railway station in Hertfordshire, England

Cole Green station in 1968, prior to demolition

Cole Green railway station was a station at Cole Green, Hertfordshire, England, on the Hertford and Welwyn Junction Railway. It was a passenger station from 1858 until 18 June 1951, also serving the hamlet of Letty Green.

It is now a picnic spot on the Cole Green Way footpath and cycle trail.

The station was used in the film The Lady with a Lamp (1951). Florence Nightingale arrives at the station near her home. The train is hauled by the early steam locomotive Lion, with three four-wheeler passenger coaches, two of them named Experience and Huskisson.

References

  1. "Hertingfordbury". Disused Stations:Site Records. Retrieved 22 November 2015.
  2. "Cole Green Way" (PDF). Retrieved 22 November 2015.
  3. Internet Movie Database: The Lady with a Lamp (1951): Filming and Production, and Trivia


Preceding station   Disused railways   Following station
Hatfield Hyde Halt   Great Northern Railway
Hertford and Welwyn Junction Railway
  Hertingfordbury

51°47′02″N 0°08′16″W / 51.7839°N 0.1377°W / 51.7839; -0.1377


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