The typical yellow gault brickwork of the former Potton station

looks impressive in the springtime sunshine and is typical of many such structures found in the eastern counties. For a relatively small village, the building is large with it seeing much outward traffic from the surrounding agricultural land during its heydey. Interestingly, it also saw large amounts of manure arriving at a facility near the station courtesy of London Zoo's stables that no doubt did not go unnoticed by the local residents! Located on the Varsity route the station shut along with the line closed on 01.01.68. Whilst this station will not reopen there are grand and ambitious plans to resurrect the line between Oxford and Cambridge but the preferred route appears to go north of Potton so the village looks as though the railway will not return.