Culworth was a railway station near the village of Moreton Pinkney

Moreton Pinkney

Moreton Pinkney is a village and civil parish in South Northamptonshire, about north of Brackley.-Parish church:The earliest evidence of Christianity in the parish is a fragment of an Anglo-Saxon stone cross in the churchyard of the Church of England parish church of St Mary the Virgin...

 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,...

. The station was on the former Great Central main line

Great Central Main Line

The Great Central Main Line , also known as the London Extension of the Manchester, Sheffield and Lincolnshire Railway , is a former railway line which opened in 1899 linking Sheffield with Marylebone Station in London via Nottingham and Leicester.The GCML was the last main line railway built in...

, the last main line to be constructed from the north of England

England

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 to London

London

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 which opened in March 1899.

History

Although named "Culworth" after the nearby village of the same name, the station was actually situated nearer the larger settlement of Moreton Pinkney which had, since 1873, its own station

Morton Pinkney railway station

Morton Pinkney was a railway station on the Stratford-upon-Avon and Midland Junction Railway which served the Northamptonshire village of Moreton Pinkney between 1873 and 1952...

 on the Stratford-upon-Avon and Midland Junction Railway

Stratford-upon-Avon and Midland Junction Railway

The Stratford Upon Avon & Midland Junction Railway was a small independent railway company which ran a line across the empty, untouched centre of England. It visited the counties of Northamptonshire, Warwickshire, Oxfordshire and a little of Buckinghamshire, only existing as the SMJR from 1909 to...

. For Culworth villagers, Eydon Road Halt station

Eydon Road Halt railway station

Eydon Road Halt was a railway station on the link line between the Great Central Railway and the Great Western Railway's Birmingham - London line, leaving the Great Central at Culworth Junction to connect with Banbury Junction...

 on the Great Central's branch to Banbury

Banbury railway station

Banbury railway station serves the town of Banbury in Oxfordshire, England. The station is currently operated by Chiltern Railways, on the Chiltern Main Line, and has four platforms in use.-History:...

 was however far more convenient.

The station closed in 1958 and an industrial farm unit now occupies the site.

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