Alcester railway station

Alcester
Alcester
	The station in June 1962
Location	Alcester, Stratford-on-Avon ; United Kingdom
Coordinates	52°13′01″N1°52′39″W / 52.2169°N 1.8776°W Coordinates: 52°13′01″N1°52′39″W / 52.2169°N 1.8776°W
Grid reference	SP083576
Platforms	2
Other information
Status	Disused
History
Original company	Evesham and Redditch Railway
Pre-grouping	Midland Railway
Post-grouping	London, Midland and Scottish Railway ; London Midland Region of British Railways
Key dates
17 September 1866	Opened [1]
1 October 1962	Final train [1]
17 June 1963	Closed to passengers [1] [2]
6 June 1964	Closed [1]

Last updated November 16, 2020

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

History

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.

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References

1 2 3 4 "Station Name: Alcester". Disused Stations. Retrieved 24 March 2017.
↑ 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.

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[DS1-1] 1 2 3 4 "Station Name: Alcester". Disused Stations. Retrieved 24 March 2017.

[2] Passengers No More by G.Daniels and L.Dench second edition page 17.