Wilnecote railway station is a small unmanned station serving Wilnecote 1.5 miles (2 km) south of Tamworth town centre in

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, England. The station is situated beneath a bridge which carries the former A5 Watling Street.

History

It was opened in 1842 by the Birmingham and Derby Junction Railway as Wilnecote and Fazeley, the name being shortened in 1904. In 1889, John William Leader, a corn merchant of Tamworth was killed at the station when crossing the tracks he was struck by an express from Derby.

Stationmasters

In 1961 Brian A. Martin was appointed station master a few months after his twentieth birthday and was at the time the youngest station master on British Railways. *Joseph Passey ca. 1851 - 1860 *William Hunt 1860 - 1879 *G. Hull 1879 *A. Withers 1879 - 1880 *William Headford 1880 - 1888 (formerly station master at Great Glen) *George E. Cookson 1888 - 1899 (formerly station master at Finedon) *Samuel Allanach 1900 - 1906 (afterwards station master at West Bridge, Leicester) *Henry Molineux 1906 - 1908 *George Parker 1908 - 1931 *Percy Jackson 1931 - 1932 (formerly station master at Church Gresley) *Walter J. Crisp 1932 - 1933 *Noel Manton 1933 - 1940 (formerly station master at Borrowash, afterwards station master at Oakham) *F.A. Brown from 1940 *Brian A. Martin from 1961

Services

Wilnecote is served by the hourly

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service between Birmingham New Street and Nottingham with the majority of the Northbound services coming from . West Midlands Trai