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Type: | National Rail (Birmingham-Leicester Line) |
Station code: | WTO |
Opened: | 1842 |
Platforms: | 2 |
The first station at Water Orton was built by the Birmingham & Derby Junction Railway in 1842. It was replaced by the current station built by the Midland Railway in 1909 after the junction of the line to Kingsbury was re-sited to allow for higher line speeds. The new station was built further away from the junction [1].
The station was built as a single island platform with the station building on a road bridge which crossed the railway lines. A goods yard used to be located next to the station but it was closed in 1966 [2].
Although the station is managed by West Midlands Trains only Cross Country services stop there, usually a two-hourly train between Birmingham New Street and Leicester though there is also one train a day to and from Derby. There is no Sunday service.
Two Cross Country trains pass just North of the station |
Side of the station building, seen better days |
Stairway down to the platforms |
View down the platforms |
Station building |
[1] Vic Mitchell, North of Birmingham (Middleton Press, 2014) fig. 29
[2] Vic Mitchell, Birmingham to Tamworth and Nuneaton (Middleton Press, 2014) fig. 45