Many of Cambridgeshire's lost railway stations have found new uses as busway stations. However, the most common fate of station houses that still exist is that they have become private homes.
At Quy, the old station house still stands, although it has had a facelift in recent years. The station itself opened in June 1884 on the line between Cambridge and Mildenhall.
It was operated by the Great Eastern Railway, a company which had lines linking parts of East Anglia. The station is in quite a remote location, nearly a mile from the Quy crossroads, and surrounded by farms.
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This might be part of the reason why Quy saw diminishing numbers of passengers and eventually closed. Once motor traffic became more common, people preferred to drive rather than make their way to remote stations to catch a train.
From 1894, Quy did not have a station master because it was such a quiet station. It was downgraded to an unstaffed halt in June 1935, 51 years after it opened, with tickets available from the conductor on the train.
The station had a house and staff accommodation, as well as a ticket office, staff room, station master's office, and waiting room. There was also a small goods yard which mostly handled small goods and parcels.
The station closed to passengers in June 1962 and closed completely in July 1964. From some time the building was used as a workshop, but in the 1980s or 1990s it was sold and converted into a house.
The station building was sold for £39,000 in December 1998. It has since been converted into three offices, but the station master's house and gatekeeper's cottage are still private homes.
