Clifton Mill railway station

Clifton Mill
Site of the station in 1988.
Location
Place	Rugby
Area	Warwickshire
Operations
Original company	London and North Western Railway
Post-grouping	London, Midland and Scottish Railway
Platforms	2
History
November 1864[1]	Station opens
6 April 1953[2]	Station closes
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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]

History

Parliamentary approval was gained in 1846 to the directors of the London and Birmingham Railway for a branch from Rugby to the Syston and Peterborough Railway near Stamford.^[3] In the same year the company became part of the London and North Western Railway. The section from Rugby to Market Harborough, which included Clifton Mill, opened in April 1850.^[1] Originally single track, it was doubled in 1878.^[4]

At grouping in 1923 it became part of the London Midland and Scottish Railway. The station closed on 6 April 1953^[2] and the line closed in 1966.

Site today

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.

References

1. "Clifton Mill station". Retrieved 23 April 2016.
2. Quick, Michael (2009) [2001]. Railway passenger stations in Great Britain: a chronology (4th ed.). Oxford: Railway and Canal Historical Society. p. 128. ISBN 978-0-901461-57-5. OCLC 612226077.
3. "Rugby and Stamford Railway Act 1846".
4. Hendry, R. Preston; Hendry, R. Powell (1982). An historical survey of selected LMS stations: layouts and illustrations Vol. 1. Oxford Publishing. p. 152. ISBN 0-86093-168-4.

External links

• Clifton Mill station on navigable 1954 O. S. map

Coordinates: 52°22′58″N 1°13′52″W / 52.38284°N 1.23110°W