Eckington railway station was a railway station to serve
Eckington in
Worcestershire
Worcestershire ( , ; written abbreviation: Worcs) is a county in the West Midlands of England. The area that is now Worcestershire was absorbed into the unified Kingdom of England in 927, at which time it was constituted as a county (see H ...
.
The station was opened by the
Birmingham and Gloucester Railway in 1840. The buildings were ''"erected in the Gothic style, very much like those on some of the Scotch railways recently opened to the public."''
[ Whishaw, F., (1840) ''The Railways of Great Britain and Ireland: Practically described and illustrated'' London: Simpkin, Marshall and Co.]
The station closed to passengers on 4 January 1965.
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Former Midland Railway stations
Railway stations in Great Britain opened in 1840
Railway stations in Great Britain closed in 1965
Disused railway stations in Worcestershire
Beeching closures in England
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