Yelvertoft and Stanford Park railway station

Yelvertoft and Stanford Park railway station was a railway station serving the village of Yelvertoft in the English county of Northamptonshire and the stately home of Stanford Hall nearby in Leicestershire. It was opened as Stanford Hall on the Rugby and Stamford Railway in 1850.

Yelvertoft and Stanford Park
Location	Yelvertoft, Northamptonshire England
Platforms	2
Other information
Status	Disused
History
Original company	London and North Western Railway
Post-grouping	London, Midland and Scottish Railway
Key dates
1 May 1850	Station opens as Stanford Hall
1 Jun 1870	renamed Yelvertoft
December 1880	renamed Yelverftoft and Stanford Hall
1 February 1881	renamed Yelvertoft and Stanford Park
6 June 1966	Station closes[1]

Parliamentary approval was gained in 1846 by the directors of the London and Birmingham Railway for a branch from Rugby to the Syston and Peterborough Railway near Stamford. [2] In the same year the company became part of the London and North Western Railway. The section from Rugby to Market Harborough, which included Yelvertoft, opened in 1850. Originally single track, it was doubled at the end of 1878.[3]

At grouping in 1923 it became part of the London Midland and Scottish Railway.

References

1. Butt, R.V.J., (1995) The Directory of Railway Stations, Yeovil: Patrick Stephens
2. http://archivesunlocked.warwickshire.gov.uk/dserve.exe?dsqIni=Dserve.ini&dsqApp=Archive&dsqDb=Catalog&dsqCmd=Show.tcl&dsqSearch=(RefNo=='01510/1/3/1/6')
3. Preston Hendry, R., Powell Hendry, R., (1982) An historical survey of selected LMS stations : layouts and illustrations. Vol. 1 Oxford Publishing

Preceding station		Disused railways		Following station
Lilbourne Line and station closed		London and North Western Railway Rugby to Peterborough Line		Welford and Kilworth Line and station closed