Wilnecote railway station

Wilnecote railway station is a railway station serving the town of Fazeley and suburb of Wilnecote in Staffordshire, England. It is 1.5 miles (2 km) south of Tamworth town centre. The station is situated beneath a bridge which carries the former A5 Watling Street.

History

It was opened in 1842 by the Birmingham and Derby Junction Railway as Wilnecote and Fazeley, the name being shortened in 1904 to just Wilnecote.

In 1889, John William Leader, a corn merchant of Tamworth was killed at the station when crossing the tracks he was struck by an express from Derby.

Stationmasters

In 1961 Brian A. Martin was appointed station master a few months after his twentieth birthday and was at the time the youngest station master on British Railways.

• Joseph Passey ca. 1851 – 1860
• William Hunt 1860–1879
• G. Hull 1879
• A. Withers 1879–1880
• William Headford 1880–1888 (formerly station master at Great Glen)
• George E. Cookson 1888–1899 (formerly station master at Finedon)
• Samuel Allanach 1900–1906 (afterwards station master at West Bridge, Leicester)
• Henry Molineux 1906–1908
• George Parker 1908–1931
• Percy Jackson 1931–1932 (formerly station master at Church Gresley)
• Walter J. Crisp 1932–1933
• Noel Manton 1933–1940 (formerly station master at Borrowash, afterwards station master at Oakham)
• F.A. Brown from 1940
• Brian A. Martin from 1961

Services

Wilnecote is served by hourly CrossCountry services southbound to via Birmingham New Street, , and and northbound Nottingham via , the first two trains of the day to each of Cardiff and Nottingham start from New Street. One train per day on Mondays to Saturdays from Nottingham also calls at after Wilnecote. West Midlands Trains manage the station but do not provide any train services here.

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