Brill and Ludgershall railway station

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Brill & Ludgershall
Brill & Ludgershall railway station (site), Buckinghamshire (geograph 4041900).jpg
The site of the station in 2014
General information
Location Ludgershall, Buckinghamshire
England
Grid reference SP659168
Platforms2
Other information
StatusDisused
History
Original company Great Western Railway
Pre-groupingGreat Western Railway
Post-groupingGreat Western Railway
Western Region of British Railways
Key dates
1 July 1910Station opens
1963Station closes

Brill and Ludgershall railway station was a railway station serving the villages of Brill and Ludgershall in Buckinghamshire. It was on what is now known as the Chiltern Main Line.

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History

Brill and Ludgershall was one of six new stations that the Great Western Railway provided when it opened the high-speed Bicester cut-off line between Princes Risborough and Kings Sutton in 1910. The line became part of the Western Region of British Railways on nationalisation in 1948. It had sidings by 1951 [1] British Railways closed the station and sidings in 1963.

Preceding station Historical railways Following station
Blackthorn
Line open, station closed
  Great Western Railway
Bicester "cut-off"
  Dorton Halt
Line open, station closed

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