Whitacre Junction railway station

Whitacre Junction railway station was opened in 1864 by the Midland Railway.

Whitacre Junction
LocationEngland
Other information
StatusDisused
History
Original companyMidland Railway
Post-groupingLondon, Midland and Scottish Railway
Key dates
10 February 1842Station opens as Whitacre Junction
1 November 1864closed and replaced
1 October 1904renamed Whitacre
4 March 1968Station closes[1]
Lines around Whitacre Junction

The line had been opened in 1839 by the Birmingham and Derby Junction Railway from Derby, to a south-facing junction with the London and Birmingham Railway just north of Hampton-in-Arden.

Due to increasing traffic, and the inconvenience of having to reverse trains at Hampton-in-Arden to reach Birmingham Curzon Street, a branch was built in 1842 west from Whitacre to a new Midland Railway passenger station at Birmingham Lawley Street. The Midland Railway generally used the London and North-Western Railway Trent Valley Line and Great Northern Railway tracks to reach London, so the line south to Hampton faded into obscurity.

In 1864, the Midland built a new line eastwards to Nuneaton. It is not clear when the original station was built, but it was moved 60 chains further south at this time.[2] In 1909 a cutoff line was built between Water Orton and Kingsbury

Preceding station Historical railways Following station
Coleshill
Line and station open		   Midland Railway
Birmingham to Leicester Line		   Shustoke
Line open, station closed
Kingsbury
Line open, station closed		   Midland Railway
Stonebridge Railway		   Maxstoke
Line and station closed

References
  1. Butt, R.V.J., (1995) The Directory of Railway Stations, Yeovil: Patrick Stephens
  2. Pixton, B., (2005) Birmingham-Derby: Portrait of a Famous Route, Runpast Publishing


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