Clifton Mill | |
Status: | Disused |
Borough: | Clifton-upon-Dunsmore, Warwickshire |
Country: | England |
Platforms: | 2 |
Original: | London and North Western Railway |
Pregroup: | London and North Western Railway |
Postgroup: | London, Midland and Scottish Railway |
Years: | November 1864[1] |
Events: | Station opens |
Years1: | 6 April 1953 |
Events1: | Station closes |
Clifton Mill railway station was a railway station serving Clifton-upon-Dunsmore in the English county of Warwickshire. It was opened on the Rugby and Stamford Railway in 1864.[1]
Parliamentary approval was gained in 1846 to the directors of the London and Birmingham Railway for a branch from to the Syston and Peterborough Railway near .[2] In the same year the company became part of the London and North Western Railway. The section from Rugby to Market Harborough was opened on 1 May 1850. Clifton Mill did not open until 1864. and [1] although it was single track, it was doubled in 1878.[3]
At grouping in 1923 it became part of the London Midland and Scottish Railway. The station closed on 6 April 1953 and the line closed in 1966.
Station Road leads from the village centre terminating in a small Mill Lane. Some distance along the former are a number of buildings, where traces of the old track bed may still be made out.