Weedon railway station

Weedon railway station was located to the north of Weedon Bec in Northamptonshire, England on the West Coast Main Line. It was a junction station, being the starting point of the Weedon to Leamington Spa branch line, with one bay platform dedicated for terminating branch line trains.

Weedon
Weedon station in the 1900s
General information
Location	Weedon Bec, West Northamptonshire England
Platforms	3 (2 side, 1 bay)
Other information
Status	Demolished
History
Original company	London and Birmingham Railway
Pre-grouping	London and North Western Railway
Post-grouping	London, Midland and Scottish Railway
Key dates
17 September 1838	Opened
19 Feb. 1888[1]	resited
15 September 1958	Closed
Location

History

The station also housed a busy goods depot which was attacked by German aircraft during World War II.^[2]

The station closed for passengers on 15 September 1958, concurrent with closure of the branch to Leamington Spa; it was demolished soon afterwards.^[3]

Accidents and incidents

Main article: Weedon rail crashes

Two serious derailments occurred south of the station in 1915 and 1951, killing 10 and 15 people respectively.

Future

Transport advocacy group Sustainable Transport Midlands is campaigning for a new parkway station to be built in Weedon to serve Daventry. In an interview with BBC News, Councillor Phil Larratt, West Northamptonshire Council cabinet member for Transport said 'West Northamptonshire Council supported new stations and a new facility at Weedon could "serve all the villages and communities between Daventry, Northampton and Towcester"'^[4]

At present, the nearest operational station to Daventry and Weedon is Long Buckby.

Routes

A 1911 Railway Clearing House map of railways in the vicinity of Weedon (upper middle, in red)

Preceding station		Disused railways		Following station
Welton Line open, station closed		West Coast Main Line		Blisworth Line open, station closed
Daventry Line and station closed		Weedon to Leamington Spa line		Terminus

References

1. Railway Passenger Stations by M.Quick page 463
2. Weeden Bec
3. Weedon-Leamington Spa Line Closed The Railway Magazine issue 690 October 1958 page 727
4. "Daventry boy, 15, leads campaign for £20m new railway station". BBC News. 11 September 2021. Retrieved 11 September 2021.

General

• 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

• Weedon station on navigable 1954 O. S. map
• Photograph of Weedon station - Flickr.com

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