1 November 1864 closed and replaced 4 March 1968 Station closes | 1 October 1904 renamed Whitacre | |
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10 February 1842 Station opens as Whitacre Junction Similar Arley and Fillongley railway st, Chambers Crossing Halt railw, Salford Priors railway st, Marton (Warwicks) railway st, Nuneaton Abbey Street rail | ||
Whitacre Junction railway station was opened in 1864 by the Midland Railway.
The line had been opened in 1839 by the Birmingham and Derby Junction Railway from Derby, to a south-facing junction with the London and Birmingham Railway just north of Hampton-in-Arden.
Due to increasing traffic, and the inconvenience of having to reverse trains at Hampton-in-Arden to reach Birmingham Curzon Street, a branch was built in 1842 west from Whitacre to a new Midland Railway passenger station at Birmingham Lawley Street. The Midland Railway generally used the London and North-Western Railway Trent Valley Line and Great Northern Railway tracks to reach London, so the line south to Hampton faded into obscurity.
In 1864, the Midland built a new line eastwards to Nuneaton. It is not clear when the original station was built, but it was moved 60 chains further south at this time. In 1909 a cutoff line was built between Water Orton and Kingsbury