Hampton-in-Arden's first station was opened by the London & Birmingham Railway in 1837 but was replaced by this station built by the London & North Western Railway in 1884.
The station had a goods yard which was closed in the 1960s. Until the opening of Birmingham International in the 1970s it fast services from London Euston to Birmingham New Street stopped at the station, it had long platforms able to host twelve coach trains [1]. Nowadays it is only served by shorter semi-fast LNWR services and parts of the platforms are now fenced off.
The station is in a cutting with access to the platforms via the road that crosses the line. The booking office is at surface level, this is a newer building that dates from electrification in the 1960s and a major rebuild of the station. The original wooden waiting rooms on both platforms and the station house were lost, replaced by the usual bus shelters.
Hampton-in-Arden is served by up to two trains an hour along the WCML in both directions.
A Virgin Trains Voyager passes through
Footbridge
Station sign
A LNWR Birmingham bound 350 arrives
Access is via the road bridge, the surface building can be seen in the background
A Virgin Trains Pendolino passes through
[1] Vic Mitchell & Keith Smith, Rugby to Birmingham (Middleton Press, 2008) Fig. 90
