Southam Road and Harbury railway station

Southam Road and Harbury railway station was a railway station 1 mile (1.6 km) east of Harbury, Warwickshire.

Southam Road and Harbury
Station remains in 2005
LocationHarbury, District of Stratford-on-Avon
England
Coordinates52.23457°N 1.43256°W / 52.23457; -1.43256
Grid referenceSP388597
Platforms2
Other information
StatusDisused
History
Original companyBirmingham and Oxford Junction Railway
Pre-groupingGreat Western Railway
Post-groupingGreat Western Railway
Key dates
1 October 1852Station opens
2 November 1964Station closes

History

The station was on the Birmingham and Oxford Junction Railway, which was taken over by the Great Western Railway prior to opening from Banbury to Birmingham on 1 October 1852; Southam Road and Harbury was one of nine intermediate stations originally provided.[1] The station was brick-built and had a goods siding.

British Railways closed the station to goods traffic on 11 November 1963,[2] and to passengers on 2 November 1964.[3][4] It was subsequently demolished and few traces remain. The route is now part of the Chiltern Main Line.

Route
Preceding station Historical railways Following station
Fenny Compton
Line open; station closed		   Great Western Railway
Chiltern Main Line		   Leamington Spa
Line and station open

Notes
  1. MacDermot 1927, p. 324.
  2. Mitchell & Smith 2004, fig. 29.
  3. Railway Magazine, December 1964, p.920
  4. Mitchell & Smith 2004, fig. 30.

References
  • 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 (2000). Jowett's Nationalised Railway Atlas (1st ed.). Penryn, Cornwall: Atlantic Transport Publishers. ISBN 978-0-906899-99-1. OCLC 228266687.
  • MacDermot, E.T. (1927). History of the Great Western Railway. Vol. I (1st ed.). Paddington: Great Western Railway.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)
  • Mitchell, Vic; Smith, Keith (March 2004). Banbury to Birmingham. Western Main Lines. Midhurst: Middleton Press. ISBN 1-904474-27-6.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)
  • "Services withdrawn by L.M.R.". Railway Magazine. Westminster: Tothill Press. 110 (764). December 1964.
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