Great Alne
The site of the station in 1994
General information
LocationGreat Alne, Stratford-on-Avon
England
Platforms1
Other information
StatusDisused
History
Original companyGreat Western Railway
Pre-groupingGreat Western Railway
Post-groupingGreat Western Railway
Key dates
1876Opened
1 January 1917closed
18 December 1922reopened
25 September 1939[1]Closed

Great Alne Railway Station was a station in the village of Great Alne in Warwickshire on the Great Western Railway line from Alcester, Warwickshire to Bearley, Warwickshire.[2][3]

The old railway station building, built on the Great Western Railway branch-line from Bearley to Alcester, opened in 1876[4] but is now converted to a residential dwelling. The station sat on the GWR's Alcester Branch linking their Hatton - Stratford Branch with the now defunct Midland Railway's Gloucester Loop Line south of Redditch. The line closed to passengers in 1917 only to reopen between 1922 but stopping again in 1939 for passenger use, apart from workers' trains to the nearby Castle Maudslay Motor Company's works from Coventry which ran until 1944. The line closed completely in 1951 with lifting of the track taking place shortly afterwards,[5] parts of it still remain, however, as roads and footpaths, notably to Alcester.

References

  1. ↑ Passengers No More by G.Daniels and L.Dench Second Edition page 14
  2. ↑ "Great Alne Station". Rail Around Birmingham and the West Midlands. 2004. Retrieved 31 December 2009.
  3. ↑ "Great Alne Station". Warwickshire Railways. 2004. Retrieved 31 December 2009.
  4. ↑ A History of the County of Warwick: Volume 3: Barlichway hundred (1945), pp. 86-88. URL: http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=56975
  5. ↑ "Great Alne Station".
Preceding station   Disused railways   Following station
Alcester   Great Western Railway
Alcester to Hatton Branch		   Aston Cantlow Halt

52°13′49″N 1°49′53″W / 52.23032°N 1.83149°W / 52.23032; -1.83149


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