Fenny Compton railway station

Fenny Compton
Location
Place	Fenny Compton
Area	Stratford-on-Avon, Warwickshire
Grid reference	SP427529
Operations
Original company	Oxford and Rugby Railway
Pre-grouping	Great Western Railway
Post-grouping	Great Western Railway
Platforms	2
History
1 October 1852	Station opens
2 November 1964	Station closes
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Fenny Compton railway station was a railway station serving Fenny Compton in Warwickshire, England.

The Great Western Railway opened the station in 1852 on its Oxford and Rugby Railway. It would have formed the junction of with its proposed Birmingham and Oxford Junction Railway. In 1871 the East and West Junction Railway opened its own Fenny Compton West station immediately next to it on its line between Stratford-upon-Avon and Towcester.

Parliament passed the Oxford and Rugby Railway Act in 1846, and a single track broad gauge line was opened in 1850 between Oxford and Banbury. In 1846 Parliamentary approval had also been sought for the Birmingham and Oxford Junction Railway. The two lines would meet 2 miles (3 km) north of Fenny Compton, near Knightcote, and at Oxford the ORR would connect with the GWR line from London Paddington. Parliament considered that the lines would provide useful competition for the London and Birmingham Railway which had become part of the London and North Western Railway. It gave approval subject to the lines being bought and operated by the GWR.

To discourage the GWR from proceeding, the LNWR approached the shareholders of the Oxford and Birmingham Company individually to buy their shares with view to forcing the price as high as possible - resulting in questions being asked in Parliament.

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