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Southam Road and Harbury railway station was a
railway station Rail transport (also known as train transport) is a means of transport using wheeled vehicles running in railway track, tracks, which usually consist of two parallel steel railway track, rails. Rail transport is one of the two primary means of ...
, located east of
Harbury Harbury is a village and Civil parishes in England, civil parish in the Stratford-on-Avon (district), Stratford-on-Avon district of Warwickshire, England. It is about west-southwest of Southam and about southeast of Royal Leamington Spa. The ...
, and south-west of
Southam Southam () is a market town and civil parish in the Stratford-on-Avon district of Warwickshire, England, located about east-southeast of Leamington Spa. In the 2021 census, the population of Southam was 8,114. History Southam was a Royal ...
,
Warwickshire Warwickshire (; abbreviated Warks) is a Ceremonial counties of England, ceremonial county in the West Midlands (region), West Midlands of England. It is bordered by Staffordshire and Leicestershire to the north, Northamptonshire to the east, Ox ...
.


History

The station was on the
Birmingham and Oxford Junction Railway The Birmingham and Oxford Junction Railway was an English railway line promoted by the Great Western Railway to gain a route from its southern base towards the industrial centres of the West Midlands (region), West Midlands, and in due course th ...
, which was taken over by the
Great Western Railway The Great Western Railway (GWR) was a History of rail transport in Great Britain, British railway company that linked London with the southwest, west and West Midlands (region), West Midlands of England and most of Wales. It was founded in 1833, ...
prior to opening from to
Birmingham Birmingham ( ) is a City status in the United Kingdom, city and metropolitan borough in the metropolitan county of West Midlands (county), West Midlands, within the wider West Midlands (region), West Midlands region, in England. It is the Lis ...
on 1 October 1852; Southam Road and Harbury was one of nine intermediate stations originally provided. The station was brick-built and had a goods siding.
British Rail British Railways (BR), which from 1965 traded as British Rail, was a state-owned company that operated most rail transport in Great Britain from 1948 to 1997. Originally a trading brand of the Railway Executive of the British Transport Comm ...
ways closed the station to goods traffic on 11 November 1963, and to passengers on 2 November 1964. Railway Magazine, December 1964, p.920 It was subsequently demolished and few traces remain. The route is now part of the
Chiltern Main Line The Chiltern Main Line is a railway line which links London () and Birmingham (Birmingham Moor Street railway station, Moor Street and Birmingham Snow Hill railway station, Snow Hill) on a route via High Wycombe, Bicester, Banbury, Leamington ...
.


Route


See also

* Southam and Long Itchington railway station


Notes


References

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External links


Southam Road and Harbury station on navigable 1954 O.S. map

Southam Road and Harbury station today


{{Warwickshire railway stations, disused Disused railway stations in Warwickshire Former Great Western Railway stations Railway stations in Great Britain opened in 1852 Railway stations in Great Britain closed in 1964 Beeching closures in England 1852 establishments in England