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Title: Warwick Road and North End stations - one of those little railway enigmas Post by: IndustryInsider on June 04, 2020, 15:19:38 I was pottering around on the web, as you do, doing some research into the continued use of the Kineton MOD branch from Fenny Compton (between Banbury and Leamington Spa) and I stumbled across Warwick Road and North End station in these fascinating article: https://www.warwickshirerailways.com/lms/warwick_road_smj.htm and https://www.warwickshirerailways.com/lms/northend.htm
No known photographs exist of them, with Warwick Road perhaps only 'open' for a couple of years and North End having two very short spells of opening in the 1870s before being consigned to obscurity. Was there ever even a proper station platform at either of them? I found it intriguing enough to create a post, and wonder if anyone has any other similar standard gauge stations with such little known about them? Title: Re: Warwick Road and North End stations - one of those little railway enigmas Post by: grahame on June 04, 2020, 15:42:02 Wikipedia suggests that Warwick Road was re-opened as Burton Dassett Halt
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burton_Dassett_railway_station Quote It was opened in 1871 as Warwick Road by the East and West Junction Railway on its route from Stratford-upon-Avon to Fenny Compton near the village of Burton Dassett. However it was closed in 1873. It was reopened as Burton Dassett Platform in 1909 by the newly formed Stratford-upon-Avon and Midland Junction Railway at the junction with the proposed Edge Hill Light Railway. However it closed again within three years, only to be opened once again in 1933 as Burton Dassett Halt. It then remained open until approximately 1946. Title: Re: Warwick Road and North End stations - one of those little railway enigmas Post by: Oxonhutch on June 04, 2020, 15:46:29 This 1904 map (https://maps.nls.uk/geo/explore/#zoom=16&lat=52.17312&lon=-1.43941&layers=168&b=1) from the NLS I think shows both sites with Warwick Road to the southwest by the road bridge with sidings and Northend by the over bridge to the north of the eponymous village.
Looks from the map that Warwick Road served as the northern end of an overhead cableway from what, I assume, was an ironstone quarry. Title: Re: Warwick Road and North End stations - one of those little railway enigmas Post by: IndustryInsider on June 04, 2020, 15:56:15 Wikipedia suggests that Warwick Road was re-opened as Burton Dassett Halt https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burton_Dassett_railway_station Quote It was opened in 1871 as Warwick Road by the East and West Junction Railway on its route from Stratford-upon-Avon to Fenny Compton near the village of Burton Dassett. However it was closed in 1873. It was reopened as Burton Dassett Platform in 1909 by the newly formed Stratford-upon-Avon and Midland Junction Railway at the junction with the proposed Edge Hill Light Railway. However it closed again within three years, only to be opened once again in 1933 as Burton Dassett Halt. It then remained open until approximately 1946. Yes, at least there's some photographic evidence of Burton Dassett - https://www.warwickshirerailways.com/lms/burtondassett.htm Though it's not clear that Burton Dassett station was in exactly the same spot as Warwick Road. This page is printed from the "Coffee Shop" forum at http://gwr.passenger.chat which is provided by a customer of Great Western Railway. Views expressed are those of the individual posters concerned. Visit www.gwr.com for the official Great Western Railway website. Please contact the administrators of this site if you feel that content provided contravenes our posting rules ( see http://railcustomer.info/1761 ). The forum is hosted by Well House Consultants - http://www.wellho.net |