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Littleton and Badsey railway station

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Place
  
South Littleton

Grid reference
  
SP073448

Post-grouping
  
Great Western Railway

Platforms in use
  
2

Area
  
Wychavon

Pre-grouping
  
Great Western Railway

4 June 1853 (1853-06-04)
  
Station opened

Littleton and Badsey railway station

Original company
  
Oxford, Worcester and Wolverhampton Railway

Similar
  
Ripple railway station, Ashton‑under‑Hill railway station, Bengeworth railway station, Upton‑on‑Severn railway station, Bredon railway station

Littleton and Badsey railway station was a station on the Great Western Railway's Oxford, Worcester and Wolverhampton line, near the town of Evesham, Worcestershire in England. It served the villages of Badsey, South Littleton, Middle Littleton and North Littleton.

The station was opened by the Oxford, Worcester and Wolverhampton Railway on 4 June 1853. The 1963 report The Reshaping of British Railways listed the station for closure, and British Railways closed the station on 3 January 1966.

Littleton and Badsey was one of the stations Flanders and Swann mentioned in song Slow Train, which was written in response to The Reshaping of British Railways and released in 1964.

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Littleton and Badsey railway station Wikipedia