It served the villages of Longstanton and Willingham (being roughly midway between them), until closure in October 1970.
[1] The station was immortalised in 1964 in the song "Slow Train" by Flanders and Swann.
The railway line through Long Stanton remained open for freight trains from Cambridge to St Ives, Cambridgeshire, until 1992.
The track was removed and one platform demolished in 2007, due to construction of the Cambridgeshire Guided Busway; however, the station building remains in private ownership.
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