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London North Western Railway:
Midland
Railway:
Stratford
Midland Junction Railway
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Hampton in Arden Junction
Hampton was at the southern end of the Birmingham and Derby
Junction Railway, later part of the Midland Railway. Opened as a double-track
main line on August 12, 1839, the section from Whitacre to Hampton, known as
the Stonebridge Railway, was downgraded to a branch line in 1842 after the
opening of the line from Whitacre into Birmingham; it was singled in 1843 and
lost its final passenger service in 1917 as a wartime economy measure.
After lingering on as a goods line, it was closed entirely
in 1935 following a bridge failure at Packwood. The line had originally enabled
passengers from the Tamworth, Kingsbury, Whitacre, Shustoke and Coleshill areas
to make connections at Hampton for other parts of the country, because at one
time the Midland Railway and the London and North Western Railway had stations
side by side at Hampton, at the point where the two lines met (called Derby
Junction). The Midland station building can still be seen, but the LNWR station
disappeared long ago, being replaced by the present Hampton-in-Arden railway
station some 500 yards nearer London in 1884. Courtesy
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