Atherstone
Standing on the northbound platform looking south, towards London in 2023.
General information
Location	Atherstone,Borough of North Warwickshire England
Coordinates	52°34′44″N1°33′11″W / 52.579°N 1.553°W /52.579; -1.553
Grid reference	SP304979
Managed by	London Northwestern Railway
Platforms	2
Tracks	4
Other information
Station code	ATH
Classification	DfT category F2
Passengers
2019/20	151,174
2020/21	29,300
2021/22	95,118
2022/23	98,690
2023/24	106,942
Location
Notes Passenger statistics from theOffice of Rail and Road

Atherstone is arailway station serving the market town ofAtherstone, inWarwickshire, England. It is on theTrent Valley section of theWest Coast Main Line, exactly 102 miles (164 km) fromLondon Euston.

The station was designed byJohn William Livock and opened by theLondon and North Western Railway in 1847. The line through the station was originally double track, but was widened toquadruple track during 1901-1909. The original down (northbound) platform was demolished and replaced by the current one during this time to accommodate the extra tracks.^[1] It was absorbed by theLondon Midland and Scottish Railway in theGrouping of 1923. The station passed to theLondon Midland Region of British Railways onnationalisation in 1948. When British Rail introducedsectorisation in the 1980s, the station was served by theRegional Railways until theprivatisation of British Rail.

TheTudor style station building has beengrade II listed since 1980.^[2] All of the stations on the Trent Valley Line originally had similar station buildings in the same style, designed by John William Livock, however the one at Atherstone is the only remaining Livock designed building on a Trent Valley station which is still open; all the others having since been demolished and replaced. Other examples still exist at the closedBulkington andColwich stations. The station building was restored in 1985.^[3] It has not been used for railway purposes since 1972, when the station became unstaffed, and is now in private ownership.^[4] It is currently used by a veterinary practice.^[5]

In 1860 there was atrain crash at Atherstone that killed 10 people.

The current hourly service was introduced by the previous operating companyLondon Midland in December 2008.^[6] The current hourly service is the best service Atherstone has ever received; historically the station received only an infrequent local stopping service, few of which went further north than Stafford or further south than either Rugby orCoventry; for example the May 1974 timetable shows six daily trains between Stafford and Rugby in each direction, calling at Atherstone. When theCoventry to Nuneaton Line was reopened to passenger trains in 1987, the service was diverted to terminate at Coventry instead of Rugby. By the time of the May 2000 timetable, the service had been reduced to five daily trains between Stafford and Coventry.^[4] Passenger use at the station has grown rapidly since the introduction of the new service.

From May 2014, Atherstone was part of the previous operator London Midland'sProject 110 scheme which saw the speed of theClass 350 trains on the Euston-Crewe service increase from 100 to 110 miles per hour (180 km/h), and take the express train route via Weedon rather than travel via the Northampton loop line. As a result, Atherstone lost its direct link withNorthampton but the journey time to/from London was cut by 30 minutes, with most trains now timetabled to take 82 minutes to reach the capital. However, a few trains do go via Northampton Monday - Sunday.^[7]

West Midlands Trains, operating under theLondon Northwestern Railway branding, provides an hourly service in each direction; southbound toLondon Euston viaNuneaton,Rugby andMilton Keynes Central, and northbound toCrewe viaStafford.^[8]

Preceding station	National Rail			Following station
Tamworth towardsCrewe		London Northwestern Railway London–Crewe		Nuneaton towardsLondon Euston
Polesworth Limited service towardsCrewe

• Butt, R. V. J. (October 1995).The Directory of Railway Stations: details every public and private passenger station, halt, platform and stopping place, past and present (1st ed.).Sparkford: Patrick Stephens Ltd.ISBN 978-1-85260-508-7.OCLC 60251199.OL 11956311M.
• Jowett, Alan (2000).Jowett's Nationalised Railway Atlas (1st ed.). Penryn, Cornwall: Atlantic Transport Publishers.ISBN 978-0-906899-99-1.OCLC 228266687.
• Jowett, Alan (March 1989).Jowett's Railway Atlas of Great Britain and Ireland: From Pre-Grouping to the Present Day (1st ed.). Sparkford: Patrick Stephens Ltd.ISBN 978-1-85260-086-0.OCLC 22311137.

Wikimedia Commons has media related toAtherstone railway station.

• Station on a navigable O.S. map

• Train times andstation information for Atherstone railway station fromNational Rail
• Musson, Mike."Atherstone Station".Warwickshire Railways.

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