Southam Road and Harbury railway station
Encyclopedia
Southam Road and Harbury railway station was a railway station a mile east of Harbury
, Warwickshire
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prior to opening from to Birmingham
on 1 October 1852; Southam Road and Harbury was one of nine intermediate stations originally provided. The station was brick-built and had a goods siding.
British Rail
ways closed the station to goods traffic on 11 November 1963, and to passengers on 2 November 1964. It was subsequently demolished and few traces remain. The route is now part of the Chiltern Main Line
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Harbury
Harbury is a village and civil parish in the Stratford-on-Avon district of Warwickshire, England. In the 2001 census it had a population of 2,485....
, Warwickshire
Warwickshire
Warwickshire is a landlocked non-metropolitan county in the West Midlands region of England. The county town is Warwick, although the largest town is Nuneaton. The county is famous for being the birthplace of William Shakespeare...
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History
The station was on the Birmingham and Oxford Junction Railway, which was taken over by the Great Western RailwayGreat Western Railway
The Great Western Railway was a British railway company that linked London with the south-west and west of England and most of Wales. It was founded in 1833, received its enabling Act of Parliament in 1835 and ran its first trains in 1838...
prior to opening from to Birmingham
Birmingham Snow Hill station
Birmingham Snow Hill is a railway station and tram stop in the centre of Birmingham, England, on the site of an earlier, much larger station built by the former Great Western Railway . It is the second most important railway station in the city, after Birmingham New Street station...
on 1 October 1852; Southam Road and Harbury was one of nine intermediate stations originally provided. The station was brick-built and had a goods siding.
British Rail
British Rail
British Railways , which from 1965 traded as British Rail, was the operator of most of the rail transport in Great Britain between 1948 and 1997. It was formed from the nationalisation of the "Big Four" British railway companies and lasted until the gradual privatisation of British Rail, in stages...
ways closed the station to goods traffic on 11 November 1963, and to passengers on 2 November 1964. It was subsequently demolished and few traces remain. The route is now part of the Chiltern Main Line
Chiltern Main Line
The Chiltern Main Line is an inter-urban, regional and commuter railway, part of the British railway system. It links London and Birmingham on a 112-mile route via the towns of High Wycombe, Banbury, and Leamington Spa...
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