Weedon railway station

Weedon railway station was a railway station situated to the north of and serving the village of Weedon in Northamptonshire, England. It was situated on the West Coast Main Line, and was also the starting point of the Weedon to Leamington Spa branch line, one platform of the station was dedicated for terminating branch line trains.

Weedon
Weedon station in the 1900s
LocationWeedon Bec, Daventry
England
Platforms3
Other information
StatusDisused
History
Original companyLondon and Birmingham Railway
Pre-groupingLondon and North Western Railway
Post-groupingLondon, Midland and Scottish Railway
Key dates
1838Opened
15 September 1958Closed
Location

History

The station also housed a busy goods depot which was attacked by German aircraft during the Second World War.[1]

The station closed for passengers on 15 September 1958 (concurrently with the branch to Leamington Spa) and was demolished soon after. Only the fast lines of the West Coast Main Line pass through the site (the slow lines having diverted to east via the Northampton Loop through Long Buckby and Northampton).

Accidents and incidents
Main article: Weedon rail crashes

Two serious derailments occurred south of the station in 1915 and 1951, killing 10 and 15 people respectively.

Future

There has periodically been talk of reopening the station due to its close proximity to Daventry.[2]

A local special interest group based in Northampton, Sustainable Transport Northamptonshire, is lobbying for the station to be reopened as a Daventry Parkway.[3][4].

Routes
A 1911 Railway Clearing House map of railways in the vicinity of Weedon
Preceding station   Disused railways   Following station
Welton
Line open, station closed		   London and Birmingham Railway   Blisworth
Line open, station closed
Daventry
Line and station closed		   London and North Western Railway
Weedon to Leamington Spa line		   Terminus

References
  1. http://www.northamptonshire-history.org.uk/node/215
  2. "New train station could come to Weedon". Daventry Express. 20 May 2012. Retrieved 27 January 2021.
  3. "Weedon Railway Station Project: Bringing the convenience of rail back to Weedon".
  4. "Meet the 13-year-old boy campaigning to revive the train station in his Northamptonshire village". www.northamptonchron.co.uk. Retrieved 6 September 2020.

General
  • Butt, R. V. J. (1995). The Directory of Railway Stations: details every public and private passenger station, halt, platform and stopping place, past and present (1st ed.). Sparkford: Patrick Stephens Ltd. ISBN 978-1-85260-508-7. OCLC 60251199.
  • Jowett, Alan (2000). Jowett's Nationalised Railway Atlas (1st ed.). Penryn, Cornwall: Atlantic Transport Publishers. ISBN 978-0-906899-99-1. OCLC 228266687.

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