Alcester railway station

Alcester was a railway station serving Alcester in the English county of Warwickshire.

Alcester
The station in June 1962
LocationAlcester, Stratford-on-Avon
England
Coordinates52.2169°N 1.8776°W / 52.2169; -1.8776
Grid referenceSP083576
Platforms2
Other information
StatusDisused
History
Original companyEvesham and Redditch Railway
Pre-groupingMidland Railway
Post-groupingLondon, Midland and Scottish Railway
London Midland Region of British Railways
Key dates
17 September 1866Opened[1]
1 October 1962Final train[1]
17 June 1963Closed to passengers[1][2]
6 June 1964Closed[1]

History
Location of the former station in 1994

Opened by the Evesham and Redditch Railway, and joining the Midland Railway, it became part of the London, Midland and Scottish Railway during the Grouping of 1923. The line then passed on to the London Midland Region of British Railways on nationalisation in 1948. It was then closed by the British Transport Commission.

For a while the station was the junction of a Great Western Railway line to Bearley.


Preceding station   Disused railways   Following station
Coughton   London Midland and Scottish Railway
Evesham loop line		   Wixford
Terminus   Great Western Railway
Alcester to Bearley Line		   Great Alne

The site today

The station house is lived in and has been extended. The goods shed has now been demolished. The former railway alignment is now occupied by a housing estate.

References
  1. "Station Name: Alcester". Disused Stations. Retrieved 24 March 2017.
  2. Passengers No More by G.Daniels and L.Dench second edition page 17.
  • Butt, R. V. J. (1995). The Directory of Railway Stations: details every public and private passenger station, halt, platform and stopping place, past and present (1st ed.). Sparkford: Patrick Stephens Ltd. ISBN 978-1-85260-508-7. OCLC 60251199.
  • Jowett, Alan (March 1989). Jowett's Railway Atlas of Great Britain and Ireland: From Pre-Grouping to the Present Day (1st ed.). Sparkford: Patrick Stephens Ltd. ISBN 978-1-85260-086-0. OCLC 22311137.
  • Jowett, Alan (2000). Jowett's Nationalised Railway Atlas (1st ed.). Penryn, Cornwall: Atlantic Transport Publishers. ISBN 978-0-906899-99-1. OCLC 228266687.

Further reading
  • Mitchell, Vic; Smith, Keith (2006). Cheltenham to Redditch. Middleton Press. figs. 78-87. ISBN 9781904474814. OCLC 851839542.


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