Clifton Mill railway station

Clifton Mill
Location
Place	Rugby
Area	Warwickshire
Operations
Original company	London and North Western Railway
Post-grouping	London, Midland and Scottish Railway
Platforms	2
History
1 May 1850	Station opens
6 June 1966	Station closes [1]
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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 1850.^[2]

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 1850. Originally single track, it was doubled at the end of 1878.^[4]

At grouping in 1923 it became part of the London Midland and Scottish Railway.

The 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. ^ Butt, R.V.J., (1995) The Directory of Railway Stations, Yeovil: Patrick Stephens
2. ^ http://www.warwickshirerailways.com/lms/cliftonmill.htm
3. ^ http://archivesunlocked.warwickshire.gov.uk/dserve.exe?dsqIni=Dserve.ini&dsqApp=Archive&dsqDb=Catalog&dsqCmd=Show.tcl&dsqSearch=(RefNo=='01510/1/3/1/6')
4. ^ Preston Hendry, R., Powell Hendry, R., (1982) An historical survey of selected LMS stations : layouts and illustrations. Vol. 1 Oxford Publishing

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