Daventry railway station

Coordinates: 52°15′33″N 1°09′21″W / 52.259184°N 1.155818°W

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Daventry

Daventry station when open, looking south

General information

Location

Daventry, West Northamptonshire
England

Platforms

Other information

Status

Disused

History

Original company

London and North Western Railway

Pre-grouping

London and North Western Railway

Post-grouping

London, Midland and Scottish Railway

Key dates

1 March 1888

Station opens

September 1958

Station closes

Location

Daventry was a railway station serving the town of Daventry in Northamptonshire, England. It was on the Weedon to Leamington Spa branch line. The station opened on 1 March 1888 when a branch from the main line at Weedon reached the town. This line was extended in 1895 to reach Leamington Spa.^[1]

The station was located to the east of the town centre, and was made mostly from wood. It was on a passing loop and had two platforms linked by a footbridge. The main station building was located on the down (westbound) platform, with a small waiting room on the up platform. Adjacent to the station were some goods sidings.^[1] The station was closed to passengers on 15 September 1958, however the line remained open for freight until 2 December 1963.

Nothing now remains of the station. It was demolished in January 1968, and the A425 Daventry bypass built over the site.^[1] However some of the former trackbed to the north of the station remains in use as a footpath and cycleway.

Long Buckby railway station is now the nearest station to Daventry, being about 4.5 mi (7.2 km) away.

Preceding station		Disused railways		Following station
Weedon Line and station closed		London and North Western Railway Weedon to Leamington Spa line		Braunston Line and station closed

Model

A scale model of Daventry station made by Roger Bagnall is exhibited at the Daventry town museum.^[2]

References

^ ^a ^b ^c Hurst, Geoffrey (1993). LNWR Branch Lines of West Leicestershire & East Warwickshire (First ed.). Milepost Publications. ISBN 0-947796-16-9.
^ "Train station". Daventry Museum. Archived from the original on 10 October 2020. Retrieved 5 October 2020.

Butt, R. V. J. (October 1995). The Directory of Railway Stations: details every public and private passenger station, halt, platform and stopping place, past and present (1st ed.). Sparkford: Patrick Stephens Ltd. ISBN 978-1-85260-508-7. OCLC 60251199. OL 11956311M.
Jowett, Alan (2000). Jowett's Nationalised Railway Atlas (1st ed.). Penryn, Cornwall: Atlantic Transport Publishers. ISBN 978-0-906899-99-1. OCLC 228266687.

External links

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