Brill and Ludgershall railway station

This article is about the station on the Chiltern Main Line. For the station on the Brill Tramway and the Metropolitan Railway, see Brill railway station.

Brill & Ludgershall
The site of the station in 2014
General information
Location	Ludgershall, Buckinghamshire England
Grid reference	SP659168
Platforms	2
Other information
Status	Disused
History
Original company	Great Western Railway
Pre-grouping	Great Western Railway
Post-grouping	Great Western Railway Western Region of British Railways
Key dates
1 July 1910	Station opens
7 January 1963	Station closes
Location

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.

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

References

1. "View map: Ordnance Survey, 42/61 - B (Includes: Arncott; Boarstall; Brill; Chilton; Dorton; Ludgershall; Oakley; Piddington; Wo... - Ordnance Survey 1:25,000 maps of Great Britain, 1945-1969".

• Butt, R. V. J. (October 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. OL   11956311M.
• Jowett, Alan (2000). Jowett's Nationalised Railway Atlas (1st ed.). Penryn, Cornwall: Atlantic Transport Publishers. ISBN   978-0-906899-99-1. OCLC   228266687.

External links

• Station site today ^{[ permanent dead link ]}
• The station on navigable 1946 O. S. map
• Plan of line ^{[ permanent dead link ]}

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