Daventry railway station

Daventry
Location
Place	Daventry
Area	Daventry
Operations
Original company	London and North Western Railway
Pre-grouping	London and North Western Railway
Platforms	2
History
1 March 1888	Station opens
September 1958	Station closes
Disused railway stations in the United Kingdom
Closed railway stations in Britain A B C D–F G H–J K–L M–O P–R S T–V W–Z
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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.^[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 4.5 miles 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

References

1 2 3 Hurst, Geoffrey (1993). LNWR Branch Lines of West Leicestershire & East Warwickshire (First ed.). Milepost Publications. ISBN 0-947796-16-9.

Butt, R. V. J. (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 1-8526-0508-1. OCLC 60251199.
Jowett, Alan (2000). Jowett's Nationalised Railway Atlas (1st ed.). Penryn, Cornwall: Atlantic Transport Publishers. ISBN 0-9068-9999-0. OCLC 228266687.

External links

Closed railway stations in Northamptonshire

Northampton to Market Harborough Line	Clipston and Oxendon Kelmarsh Lamport Brixworth Spratton Pitsford and Brampton

Banbury to Blisworth	Farthinghoe Helmdon Village Wappenham Towcester Tiffield

Stratford-upon-Avon and Midland Junction Railway	Byfield Morton Pinkney Blakesley Stoke Bruern Salcey Forest

Northampton and Peterborough Railway	Northampton Bridge Street Billing Castle Ashby & Earls Barton Wellingborough London Road Ditchford Irthlingborough Ringstead & Addington Thrapston Bridge Street Thorpe Barnwell Oundle

Rugby to Peterborough East	Wakerley and Barrowden Kingscliffe Nassington

Market Harborough to Bedford	Desborough Glendon and Rushton Isham & Burton Latimer Finedon Irchester

Higham Ferrers branch	Rushden Higham Ferrers

Great Central Main Line	Charwelton Woodford Halse Culworth Helmdon Brackley Central Eydon Road Halt

Northampton Loop Line	Kilsby & Crick Althorp Park Church Brampton

Rugby to Bletchley	Welton Weedon Blisworth Roade

Kettering to Huntingdon	Cranford Twywell Thrapston Midland Road Raunds

Kettering to Melton Mowbray	Geddington Gretton Harringworth

Rugby and Stamford Railway	Lilbourne Yelvertoft & Stanford Park

Weedon to Marton Junction	Daventry Braunston

Other stations	Ashley & Weston Aynho Park Aynho for Deddington Brackley Town Northampton St. John's Street Piddington

Coordinates: 52°15′32″N 1°09′20″W / 52.2588°N 1.1555°W / 52.2588; -1.1555

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