Clifton Mill railway station
Clifton Mill railway station was a railway station serving Clifton-upon-Dunsmore in the English county of Warwickshire. It was opened on the Rugby and Stamford Railway in 1864.[1] HistoryParliamentary approval was gained in 1846 to the directors of the London and Birmingham Railway for a branch from Rugby to the Syston and Peterborough Railway near Stamford.[3] In the same year the company became part of the London and North Western Railway. The section from Rugby to Market Harborough was opened on 1 May 1850. Clifton Mill did not open until 1864. and [1] although it was single track, it was doubled in 1878.[4] At grouping in 1923 it became part of the London Midland and Scottish Railway. The station closed on 6 April 1953[2] and the line closed in 1966. Site todayStation Road leads from the village centre terminating in a small Mill Lane. Some distance along the former are a number of buildings, where traces of the old track bed may still be made out. ![]() References
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