Yelvertoft and Stanford Park railway station was a railway station serving the villages of Stanford-on-Avon and 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.
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Yelvertoft and Stanford Park | |
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General information | |
Location | Stanford-on-Avon & 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.
Preceding station | Disused railways | Following station | ||
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Lilbourne Line and station closed |
London and North Western Railway Rugby to Peterborough Line |
Welford and Kilworth Line and station closed |
Closed railway stations in Northamptonshire | |
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Northampton–Market Harborough line |
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Banbury to Blisworth | |
Stratford-upon-Avon & Midland Junc Rly | |
Northampton and Peterborough Railway |
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Rugby to Peterborough East | |
Market Harborough to Bedford | |
Higham Ferrers branch |
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Great Central Main Line | |
Northampton loop | |
Rugby–Bletchley | |
Kettering–Huntingdon | |
Kettering–Melton Mowbray | |
Rugby and Stamford Railway | |
Weedon–Marton Junction | |
Other stations |
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