• The WeedonMarton Junction line (also known as the Weedon–Leamington line) was a rural branch line in England that ran from the West Coast Main Line at...
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    junction was created when the LNWR's single track line from Weedon to Daventry was extended westward to join the Rugby to Leamington line at Marton Junction...
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    also a junction called Marton Junction further south from the village, where the Rugby to Leamington Spa railway joined the Leamington to Weedon route...
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    Weedon railway station was located to the north of Weedon Bec in Northamptonshire, England on the West Coast Main Line. It was a junction station, being...
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  • Beverley rail line". York Press. Retrieved 5 January 2018. "East Riding Council takes first step to reopening York to Beverley railway line". The Yorkshire...
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  • Itchington railway station was a railway station on the Weedon to Leamington Spa branch line that served the town of Southam and the village of Long Itchington...
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    Warwickshire WeedonMarton Junction line Southam and Long Itchington Napton and Stockton Flecknoe Leamington–Rugby line Dunchurch Birdingbury Marton (Warwicks)...
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    August 1895 along with the other stations on the Daventry to Marton Junction extension of the line. It was closed during the First World War from August 1917...
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    scattered all about the line". To the north of the station is Aynho Junction, the northern end of the Bicester "cut-off" line, which was brought into...
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    station was a junction station on the London and North Western Railway (today, the West Coast Main Line), the Northampton and Banbury Junction Railway, and...
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    Handscomb 1908 - 1928 C.G. Tompkins from 1928 (formerly station master at Weedon) Alfred Jones 1941 - 1947 (formerly station master at Mostyn, afterwards...
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    the Weedon to Leamington Spa branch line. The station opened on 1 March 1888 when a branch from the main line at Weedon reached the town. This line was...
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    the track to Nassington station where a private siding and the line to Yarwell Junction at Wansford remained in use until 1971 to serve a sand and gravel...
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    1964. British Railways finally closed the line in November 1972. The section from Wansford to Yarwell Junction was taken over by the Nene Valley Railway...
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  • Railway in 1845. The construction of the Northampton Loop Line in 1875 made Roade a junction station, and it survived until 1964. The London and Birmingham...
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    Salcey Forest railway station (category Former Stratford-upon-Avon and Midland Junction Railway stations)
    part of the Stratford-upon-Avon, Towcester and Midland Junction Railway's (SMJ) east–west line from Broom to Olney. The reason for the station's construction...
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    London Road stations. This station was on an important junction with a link to the Midland Main Line at Wellingborough Midland Road which enabled through...
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    Towcester railway station (category Former Stratford-upon-Avon and Midland Junction Railway stations)
    branch would form a junction with the existing Banbury to Verney Junction Branch Line. The public opening of the section of line from Blisworth to Towcester...
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    opened in 1850 as part of the Buckinghamshire Railway's branch line to Verney Junction which provided connections to Banbury, Bletchley and Oxford and...
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    Blakesley railway station (category Former Stratford-upon-Avon and Midland Junction Railway stations)
    A line from Greens Norton junction near Towcester to Stratford-upon-Avon and the junction with the Great Western Railway's Honeybourne branch line was...
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    passed beneath the line. It also differed from the usual design in that, since it served what was effectively a four-way junction, it was provided with...
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  • Tiffield railway station (category Former Stratford-upon-Avon and Midland Junction Railway stations)
    The Northampton & Banbury Junction Railway, a forerunner of the Stratford-upon-Avon and Midland Junction Railway, opened a line in 1866 which linked its...
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    build such that the line was quadrupled from London as far as Glendon Junction a little way to the south of the station. Here a new line had been opened through...
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    Stoke Bruern railway station (category Former Stratford-upon-Avon and Midland Junction Railway stations)
    railway station was on the Stratford-upon-Avon, Towcester and Midland Junction Railway which opened on 1 December 1892 near the Northamptonshire village...
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    Helmdon Village railway station (category Former Stratford-upon-Avon and Midland Junction Railway stations)
    Central Main Line, and its closure marked the beginning of the years of decline for the SMJ line. In August 1871 the Northampton and Banbury Junction Railway...
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    1 November 1879, on a new section of line constructed from Wansford Line Junction at Seaton to Yarwell Junction at Wansford. Nassington station closed...
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  • station was once an intermediate stop on the Northampton–Market Harborough line, which closed in 1981. A section of the route at Pitsford and Brampton station...
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    Midland Junction Railway, known as the "SMJR", with a station called Salcey Forest to the south west of Horton and south east of Piddington. This line ran...
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    Peterborough Railway which connected Peterborough and Northampton. In 1846 the line, along with the London and Birmingham, became part of the London and North...
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    Snape 1848 - 1852 Charles Livock 1853 - 1871 (formerly station master at Weedon, afterwards station master at Rugby) J. Webster 1871 - 1874 (formerly station...
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