Eckington_railway_station

Eckington railway station

Eckington railway station

Former railway station in Worcestershire, England

This article is about the station in Worcestershire. For the station in Derbyshire, see Eckington and Renishaw railway station.

Eckington railway station was a railway station to serve Eckington in Worcestershire.

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The station was opened by the Birmingham and Gloucester Railway in 1840. The buildings were "erected in the Gothic style, very much like those on some of the Scotch railways recently opened to the public."[2]

The station closed to passengers on 4 January 1965.

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References

  1. [1]
    Butt, R.V.J., (1995) The Directory of Railway Stations, Yeovil: Patrick Stephens
  2. [2]
    Whishaw, F., (1840) The Railways of Great Britain and Ireland: Practically described and illustrated London: Simpkin, Marshall and Co.

Further reading

  • Mitchell, Vic; Smith, Keith (2006). Bromsgrove to Gloucester. Middleton Press. figs. 27-29. ISBN 9781904474739. OCLC 931169432.


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