Ayot | |
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General information | |
Location | Welwyn Garden City, Welwyn Hatfield England |
Platforms | 2 |
Other information | |
Status | Disused |
History | |
Original company | Great Northern Railway |
Pre-grouping | Great Northern Railway |
Post-grouping | London and North Eastern Railway |
Key dates | |
2 July 1877 | Station opens as Ayott St Peters |
1 April 1878 | Station renamed Ayott |
October 1878 | Station renamed Ayot |
26 July 1948 | Station closes to passengers |
1 May 1963 | closed for goods traffic |
Ayot was a railway station serving Ayot St Peter near Welwyn Garden City in Hertfordshire, England. It was on the branch line to Dunstable.
Opened by the Great Northern Railway, it became part of the London and North Eastern Railway during the Grouping of 1923. The station then passed on to British Railways on nationalisation in 1948 but was closed by British Railways that year when the station was destroyed by fire and never rebuilt.
Preceding station | Disused railways | Following station | ||
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Wheathampstead | Great Northern Railway Dunstable Branch | Welwyn Garden City |
The trackbed is now part of a local rail trail called Ayot Greenway. [1]
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