Great Alne railway station

Great Alne
Location
Place Great Alne
Area Stratford-on-Avon
Operations
Original company Great Western Railway
Pre-grouping Great Western Railway
Post-grouping Great Western Railway
Platforms 1
History
1876 Opened
1939 Closed
Disused railway stations in the United Kingdom
Closed railway stations in Britain
A B C D–F G H–J K–L M–O P–R S T–V W–Z
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Great Alne Railway Station was a station in the village of Great Alne in Warwickshire on the Great Western Railway line from Alcester, Warwickshire to Bearley, Warwickshire.[1][2]

The old railway station building, built on the Great Western Railway branch-line from Bearley to Alcester, opened in 1876[3] but is now converted to a residential dwelling. The station sat on the GWR's Alcester Branch linking their Hatton - Stratford Branch with the now defunct Midland Railway's Gloucester Loop line South of Redditch. The line closed to passengers in 1917 only to reopen between 1922/3 but stopping again in 1939 for passenger use, apart from workers' trains to the nearby Castle Maudslay Motor Company's works from Coventry. The line closed completely in 1951 with lifting of the track taking place shortly afterwards, parts of it still remain however, as roads and footpaths, notably to Alcester.

References

  1. ↑ "Great Alne Station". Rail Around Birmingham and the West Midlands. 2004. Retrieved 2009-12-31.
  2. ↑ "Great Alne Station". Warwickshire Railways. 2004. Retrieved 2009-12-31.
  3. ↑ A History of the County of Warwick: Volume 3: Barlichway hundred (1945), pp. 86-88. URL: http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=56975
Preceding station Disused railways Following station
Alcester   Great Western Railway
Alcester to Hatton Branch		   Aston Cantlow Halt

Coordinates: 52°13′49″N 1°49′53″W / 52.23032°N 1.83149°W