Ketton and Collyweston railway station is a former station serving the villages of
Ketton
Ketton is a village and Civil parishes in England, civil parish in Rutland in the East Midlands of England. It is about east of Oakham and west of Stamford, Lincolnshire. The United Kingdom Census 2011, 2011 Census recorded a parish population ...
, Geeston, Aldgate and
Collyweston
Collyweston is a village and civil parish in North Northamptonshire, about three miles southwest of Stamford, Lincolnshire, on the road (the A43) to Kettering. The population of the civil parish at the 2011 census was 514.
Geography
The villa ...
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Rutland. It is located in Geeston adjacent to a level crossing on the Ketton to Collyweston road. It is under half a mile from Ketton but over a mile from Collyweston. It closed in 1966.
History
The contract for the erection of the station was obtained by Groocock and Yates of Leicester in 1847. The station was opened by the
Midland Railway
The Midland Railway (MR) was a railway company in the United Kingdom from 1844. The Midland was one of the largest railway companies in Britain in the early 20th century, and the largest employer in Derby, where it had its headquarters. It ama ...
as Ketton on 1 May 1848, on the
Syston and Peterborough Railway
The Syston and Peterborough Railway was an early railway in England opened between 1846 and 1848 to form a connection from the Midland Counties Railway near Leicester to Peterborough, giving access to East Anglia over the Eastern Counties Railway ...
about two years after the rest of the line opened. From 1851, trains using the
LNWR
The London and North Western Railway (LNWR, L&NWR) was a British railway company between 1846 and 1922. In the late 19th century, the L&NWR was the largest joint stock company in the United Kingdom.
In 1923, it became a constituent of the L ...
Rugby and Stamford Railway railway which joined at
Luffenham passed through the station but generally did not stop.
Although much of the line had opened in 1846, there was a dispute with Lord Harborough over the course of the line and this section was not opened until 1848. It was built next to a level crossing on the road between Ketton and Collyweston. The handsome station building was built in a Victorian ecclesiastical Tudor pattern of local stone and Collyweston tiles. For good measure it included a small belfry though whether this was ever used is not known. These handsome buildings were demolished in the course of the year 1973. On the other platform was a smaller building in a combination of stone and timber, built in 1872.
To gain a more direct route, in 1879 the LNWR built a line from to Yarwell junction near
Wansford Wansford may refer to the following places in England:
* Wansford, Cambridgeshire
** Wansford railway station, headquarters of the Nene Valley Railway
* Wansford, East Riding of Yorkshire
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on its
Northampton to
Peterborough
Peterborough () is a cathedral city in Cambridgeshire, east of England. It is the largest part of the City of Peterborough unitary authority district (which covers a larger area than Peterborough itself). It was part of Northamptonshire until ...
line, thus bypassing the section through Luffenham, though it continued to run a few trains.
On both sides of the double track were ample sidings, particularly on the down Peterborough side where three lines served a good shed and loading dock with a crane. Unusually, access to the three minor sidings was by means of a wagon turntable rather than points. There was a signal box on the other side of the road.
In the early part of the 20th century the station saw six or seven Midland Railway trains per day and five LNWR trains between Seaton and Stamford. After the war this reduced to five a day on the Midland routes with a few on the branch from Seaton.
At
grouping
Grouping may refer to:
* Muenchian grouping
* Principles of grouping
* Railways Act 1921, also known as Grouping Act, a reorganisation of the British railway system
* Grouping (firearms), the pattern of multiple shots from a sidearm
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in 1923 it became part of the
London Midland and Scottish Railway
The London, Midland and Scottish Railway (LMSIt has been argued that the initials LMSR should be used to be consistent with LNER, GWR and SR. The London, Midland and Scottish Railway's corporate image used LMS, and this is what is generally ...
. It received its final name in 1935.
The line from Seaton was closed and lifted in 1966, but the main Midland line is still in operation for trains from Leicester to Peterborough. The station buildings no longer exist.
Stationmasters
*James Osborne ca. 1851
*Henry Prime until 1861
(afterwards station master at Manton)
*John Taylor 1861 - 1863
[
*O.G. Mills 1863 - 1866][ (afterwards station master at Poona, Great Indian Peninsular Railway)
*Joseph Vizall Bendall 1866][ - 1870 (formerly station master at Shustoke, afterwards station master at Harpenden)
*Francis Tomblin until 1873][ (formerly station master at Wisbech St Mary)
*R. Jeanes 1877 - 1879][
*G. Sears 1879][ - 1881][ (afterwards station master at Castle Donington)
*John Davies 1895][ - 1901][ (afterwards station master at Barrow-on-Soar and Quorn)
*H.F. West 1903 - 1907][ (formerly station master at Barrow-on-Soar and Quorn)
*Frederick Herbert Stanley 1907][ - 1934
*J.S. Smith from 1934
*A. Fletcher 1942 - 1950]
References
External links
Ketton and Collyweston station on navigable 1946 O. S. map
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Disused railway stations in Rutland
Railway stations in Great Britain opened in 1848
Railway stations in Great Britain closed in 1966
Former Midland Railway stations
Beeching closures in England
Ketton