Darby End railway station
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Darby End railway station was a station on the former Great Western Railway's
Bumble Hole Line between and .
It opened in 1905 and closed in 1964 as part of the Beeching Axe
.
Great Western Railway
The Great Western Railway was a British railway company that linked London with the south-west and west of England and most of Wales. It was founded in 1833, received its enabling Act of Parliament in 1835 and ran its first trains in 1838...
Bumble Hole Line between and .
It opened in 1905 and closed in 1964 as part of the Beeching Axe
Beeching Axe
The Beeching Axe or the Beeching Cuts are informal names for the British Government's attempt in the 1960s to reduce the cost of running British Railways, the nationalised railway system in the United Kingdom. The name is that of the main author of The Reshaping of British Railways, Dr Richard...
.