Histon railway station

railway station in Cambridgeshire, England, UK, now closed
Place railway_station Q15224233
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Histon railway station

Summary

Histon railway station is a railway station[1]. It ranks in the top 0.98% of railway_station entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (4 views/month, #182 of 18,574).[2]

Key Facts

  • Histon railway station is located in South Cambridgeshire[3].
  • Histon railway station is in the country of United Kingdom[4].
  • Histon railway station's instance of is recorded as railway station[5].
  • Histon railway station's adjacent station is recorded as Cambridge railway station[6].
  • Histon railway station's adjacent station is recorded as Oakington railway station[7].
  • Histon railway station's Commons category is recorded as Histon railway station[8].
  • Histon railway station's coordinate location is recorded as {'globe': 'http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q2', 'altitude': None, 'latitude': 52.2423, 'longitude': 0.1103, 'precision': 2.77777777778e-06}[9].
  • Histon railway station's located on linear feature is recorded as St Ives Branch, Chesterton to Fen Drayton[10].
  • Histon railway station's number of platform tracks is recorded as {'unit': '1', 'amount': '+2'}[11].
  • Histon railway station's date of official opening is recorded as +1847-08-17T00:00:00Z[12].
  • Histon railway station's date of official closure is recorded as +1970-10-05T00:00:00Z[13].
  • Histon railway station's state of use is recorded as decommissioned[14].
  • Histon railway station's historic county is recorded as Cambridgeshire[15].

Body

Geography

Histon railway station is in the country of United Kingdom[4]. It is located in South Cambridgeshire[3].

Designation and Status

Histon railway station's instance of is recorded as railway station[5].

Why It Matters

Histon railway station ranks in the top 0.98% of railway_station entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (4 views/month, #182 of 18,574).[2]

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [4] . wikidata.org.
  2. [5] . wikidata.org.
  3. [3] . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] . Engineer's Line References (ELRs): A (Hopefully) Comprehensive Listing. railwaycodes.org.uk. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  9. [11] . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] . wikidata.org.
  12. [14] . wikidata.org.
  13. [15] . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.

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  1. 4w ago · KaleemBot bot · 2026-05-08 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Country United Kingdom
    Located in the administrative territorial entity South Cambridgeshire
    Date of official closure +1970-10-05T00:00:00Z
    Freebase id /m/0411sg0
    + 14 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbeditentity-update:0| */ Added [[wikipedia:ur:ہسٹن ریلوے اسٹیشن]]"
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