Ashley and Weston railway station was a station in Northamptonshire

Northamptonshire

Northamptonshire is a landlocked county in the English East Midlands, with a population of 629,676 as at the 2001 census. It has boundaries with the ceremonial counties of Warwickshire to the west, Leicestershire and Rutland to the north, Cambridgeshire to the east, Bedfordshire to the south-east,...

, serving the settlements of Ashley

Ashley, Northamptonshire

Ashley is a village and civil parish in the Kettering district of Northamptonshire, England, about northeast of Market Harborough, Leicestershire and west of Corby. The village is near the River Welland, which forms the border with Leicestershire...

 and Weston

Weston, Northamptonshire

Weston is a village in the south west of the English county of Northamptonshire; it is part of South Northamptonshire district. It gives its name to Weston Hall, the home of Sir Sacheverell Sitwell from 1927 until his death in 1988....

. It was located a few miles east of Market Harborough

Market Harborough

Market Harborough is a market town within the Harborough district of Leicestershire, England.It has a population of 20,785 and is the administrative headquarters of Harborough District Council. It sits on the Northamptonshire-Leicestershire border...

.

The station opened in 1850 on the Rugby and Stamford Railway and was originally named Medbourne Bridge. It was renamed when Medbourne railway station

Medbourne railway station

Medbourne railway station was a station in Medbourne, Leicestershire on the Great Northern and London and North Western Joint Railway.-History:...

 was opened on the Great Northern and London and North Western Joint Railway

Great Northern and London and North Western Joint Railway

The Great Northern and London and North Western Joint Railway was a joint railway owned by the Great Northern Railway and the London and North Western Railway in east Leicestershire.-Location:...

. The station closed for regular passenger services on 18th June 1951.

History

Opened by the London and North Western Railway

London and North Western Railway

The London and North Western Railway was a British railway company between 1846 and 1922. It was created by the merger of three companies – the Grand Junction Railway, the London and Birmingham Railway and the Manchester and Birmingham Railway...

, it became part of the London, Midland and Scottish Railway

London, Midland and Scottish Railway

The London Midland and Scottish Railway was a British railway company. It was formed on 1 January 1923 under the Railways Act of 1921, which required the grouping of over 120 separate railway companies into just four...

 during the Grouping

Railways Act 1921

The Railways Act 1921, also known as the Grouping Act, was an enactment by the British government of David Lloyd George intended to stem the losses being made by many of the country's 120 railway companies, move the railways away from internal competition, and to retain some of the benefits which...

 of 1923. The station passed on to the London Midland Region of British Railways

London Midland Region of British Railways

The London Midland Region was one of the six regions created on the formation of the nationalised British Railways and consisted of ex-London, Midland and Scottish Railway lines in England and Wales. The region was managed first from buildings adjacent to Euston Station and later from Stanier...

 on nationalisation in 1948. It was eventually closed by British Railways.

Extensive sidings were opened in 1904 to handle the amount of coal coming from Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire. To the west was Welham Junction.

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