Brandon and Wolston railway station was a
railway station
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serving the villages of
Brandon
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and
Wolston
Wolston is a village and civil parish in the Rugby borough of Warwickshire, England. The village is located roughly halfway between Rugby and Coventry, and had a population of 2,692 at the 2021 census. It is close to the A45 road and the Roman ...
in the
English
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county of
Warwickshire
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.
The original Brandon station was built by the
London and Birmingham Railway
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The railway line which the company opened in 1838, betw ...
and was the only one between
Coventry
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and
Rugby. It was replaced by a new station nearby, Brandon and Wolston, in 1879.
[Preston Hendry, R., Powell Hendry, R., (1982) ''An historical survey of selected LMS stations : layouts and illustrations. Vol. 1'' Oxford Publishing]
There were small sidings on each side of the double track, with a goods shed on the up. For each, until 1903, there were wagon turntables, with track between them passing at right angles across the running lines. Although this was a common arrangement for small wayside stations, the LNWR had removed them elsewhere before 1880.
At
grouping
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in 1923 it became part of the
London Midland and Scottish Railway
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.
There was a fairly substantial timber-built booking office on the up platform, and a footbridge, as was required by the Inspector of Railways for stations built at that late date. The LNWR provided only five trains a day in each direction, less than a third for stations at that time and in that area. By 1938 the LMS was providing about a dozen trains a day but this trade virtually disappeared after the war.
The station never generated a great deal of business and was closed on 12 September 1960. The signal cabin which had survived, possibly since 1879, was closed when Rugby power box was opened in September 1964.
References
External links
Brandon & Wolston station at warwickshirerailways.com- Old photographs.
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Disused railway stations in Warwickshire
Former London and Birmingham Railway stations
Railway stations in Great Britain opened in 1838
Railway stations in Great Britain closed in 1960
1838 establishments in England
1960 disestablishments in England