Bengeworth railway station
Bengeworth | |||||
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Bengeworth railway station in 1960 | |||||
| General information | |||||
| Location | Hampton, Worcestershire England | ||||
| Coordinates | 52°05′08″N 1°57′41″W / 52.0856°N 1.9615°W | ||||
| Grid reference | SP027430 | ||||
| Platforms | 2 | ||||
| Other information | |||||
| Status | Disused | ||||
| History | |||||
| Original company | Midland Railway | ||||
| Pre-grouping | Midland Railway | ||||
| Post-grouping | London, Midland and Scottish Railway | ||||
| Key dates | |||||
| 1 October 1864 | Opened | ||||
| 8 June 1953 | Closed | ||||
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Bengeworth railway station was a station on the Midland Railway between Ashchurch and Evesham. The precise location of the station was not in the Evesham suburb of Bengeworth itself, but one mile (2 km) away in Great Hampton. The station was named Bengeworth in order to avoid confusion over other stations in the area which also included Hampton in their names.
The station opened in 1864 and closed in 1953, but trains continued to use the line until closure in 1964. Some of the land between Hinton on the Green and south of Bengeworth station was given over to housing. The bridge that crossed the main A44 Pershore Road north of the station was removed, and the track bed beyond the road is now used as an access road to the nearby water treatment works.