Great Alne railway station explained

Great Alne
Status:Disused
Borough:Great Alne, Stratford-on-Avon
Country:England
Platforms:1
Original:Great Western Railway
Pregroup:Great Western Railway
Postgroup:Great Western Railway
Years:1876
Events:Opened
Years1:1 January 1917
Events1:closed
Years2:18 December 1922
Events2:reopened
Years3:25 September 1939[1]
Events3: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

52.2303°N -1.8315°W

Notes and References

  1. Passengers No More by G.Daniels and L.Dench Second Edition page 14
  2. Web site: Great Alne Station . 2009-12-31 . Rail Around Birmingham and the West Midlands . 2004.
  3. Web site: Great Alne Station . 2009-12-31 . Warwickshire Railways . 2004.
  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. Web site: Great Alne Station.