Birmingham and Henley-in-Arden Railway

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The Birmingham and Henley-in-Arden Railway was a railway company in England in the county of Warwickshire .

On August 5, 1873, the Henley-in-Arden and Great Western Junction Railway was established to build a 4.8 kilometer stretch from Henley-in-Arden to the Great Western Railway at Rowington . The project failed, so that the Birmingham and Henley-in-Arden Railway, founded on August 7, 1888 with the support of the Great Western Railway, took over the existing infrastructure and the rights of the discontinued Henley-in-Arden & GW Junction Railway. On June 6, 1894, the line was opened for passenger traffic and on July 2, 1894 for goods traffic.

On July 1, 1900, the Great Western Railway took over the railway company. Passenger traffic on the line was stopped on January 1, 1915 and freight traffic on January 1, 1917.

literature

  • Christopher Awdry: Encyclopaedia of British Railway Companies . Stephens, Wellingborough 1990, ISBN 1-85260-049-7 .