Clifton Mill railway station

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 1864.^[1]

Clifton Mill
Site of the station in 1988.
General information
Location	Clifton-upon-Dunsmore, Warwickshire England
Platforms	2
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
November 1864[1]	Station opens
6 April 1953[2]	Station closes
Location

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 was opened on 1 May 1850. Clifton Mill did not open until 1864. and ^[1] although it was single track, it was doubled in 1878.^[4]

At grouping in 1923 it became part of the London Midland and Scottish Railway. The station closed on 6 April 1953^[2] and the line closed in 1966.

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.

Map of the railways around Rugby in 1950, showing the location of Clifton Mill station