Acrow Halt railway station

Acrow Halt was a railway station on the Saffron Walden Railway. Located at the north-eastern edge of Saffron Walden, Essex, the station was close to the Coronation Works of Acrow Engineering Ltd., which it served between 1957 and 1964. The station was approximately 44 mi from London Liverpool Street station.

History
Acrow railway station was named after the nearby Acrow Works. The name Acrow derived from the name of Arthur Crow, the solicitor of William Aphonse de Vigier who was the owner of the factory and the inventor of the Acrow prop. Opened by the Eastern Region of British Railways on 25 March 1957, it was then closed by the British Railways Board on 7 September 1964, after a short existence of seven years.