Eydon Road Halt railway station

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Eydon Road Halt
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Site of the halt (1992)
General information
Location Eydon, West Northamptonshire
England
Grid reference SP537472
Platforms2
Other information
StatusDisused
History
Original company Great Central Railway
Pre-groupingGreat Central Railway
Post-grouping London and North Eastern Railway
London Midland Region of British Railways
Key dates
1 October 1913Opened
2 April 1956Closed [1]

Eydon Road Halt was a railway station on the link line between the Great Central Railway and the Great Western Railway's Birmingham - London line, leaving the Great Central at Culworth Junction to connect with Banbury Junction. The station opened in 1913 and closed in 1956.

History

In 1893, the Manchester, Sheffield and Lincolnshire Railway (MS&LR) obtained Parliamentary approval for the extension of its line from Annesley in Nottingham to London. The final section of the extension saw the line connect with Metropolitan Railway's line at Quainton Road before returning to MS&LR metals at Finchley Road and continuing to Marylebone. Negotiations with the Metropolitan regarding running rights over its line came to deadlock prompting Sir William Pollitt, the MS&LR's general manager, to reach agreement with the Great Western Railway in March 1896 for a route to London via Banbury which would avoid the Metropolitan. [2]

The link line, which ran for a distance of 8.25 miles, was opened without formality on 1 June 1900. The route had no intermediate stations but soon became an important freight route with 60,796 wagons exchanged between the MS&LR (now known as the Great Central) and the Great Western within the first six months of operation; by 1904 this figure had risen by 50%. Two passenger services each way were initially provided by the Great Western, with the Great Central later supplementing this service with three additional trains in each direction. [3] The link was subsequently used for cross-country services, including Aberdeen to Penzance, Oxford to Leicester and Newcastle to Bournemouth. [4]

In October 1913, a halt was opened on the line at Eydon Road near Culworth and was in fact closer to the village than the Culworth station on the Great Central's main line, which was nearer Moreton Pinkney. [5] Serving a rural area, the halt closed in April 1956, and the last services to use the line ran in September 1966.

Today nothing remains of the halt at its former site, but one of its wooden platform shelters was rescued and can be seen today on an allotment behind the Social Club at Woodford Halse.

Preceding station Disused railways Following station
Chalcombe Road Halt
Line and station closed		  Great Central Railway
Banbury branch 		  Woodford Halse
Line and station closed

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References

  1. ↑ Butt, R.V.J. (1995). The Directory of Railway Stations, Patrick Stephens Ltd, Sparkford, ISBN   1-85260-508-1, p. 93.
  2. ↑ Dow, George (1962). Great Central: Volume 2 Dominion of Watkin 1864-1899. Shepperton, Surrey: Ian Allan Limited. pp. 288–289.
  3. ↑ Dow, George (1965). Great Central: Volume 3 Fay sets the pace 1900-1922. London: Ian Allan Limited. pp. 17–18. ISBN   0-7110-0263-0.
  4. ↑ Virgin Trains Media, "Virgin Trains offers Aberdeen to Penzance from just 4p a mile", 12 August 2003. Archived 16 October 2006 at the Wayback Machine
  5. ↑ Davies, R.; Grant, M.D. (1984). Forgotten Railways: Chilterns and Cotswolds. Newton Abbot, Devon: David St John Thomas. p. 195. ISBN   0-946537-07-0.

Coordinates: 52°07′12″N1°13′02″W / 52.1201°N 1.2171°W / 52.1201; -1.2171


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