LMS Route: Rugby to Market Harborough

Clifton Mill Station: lnwrclift3351

An unknown Diesel locomotive heads a long train on what is probably the 3:58pm Birmingham New Street to Lowestoft service, which departed Rugby at 5.00pm. It is the return working of the train seen at Lilbourne in frame 08. The line was electrified here to allow electric locos coming off southbound trains at Rugby to get back to the north end of the station to take over from diesel hauled trains from Euston. The locos reversed over the crossover, in front of the loco in the photograph above, and then went round the loop over the main line.

Sheila Northover nee Brown writes, 'My family were the last to live at Clifton Mill Station House. I was born in 1954 a year after my family moved in. My mother was crossing keeper at night, after the signalman went home & my dad was a train driver from before I was born, up until Dr Beeching's axe fell & my dad took redundancy! The line closed in 1967. My family moved out of the Station House 5/1/1968. The platforms were demolished around the same time as electrification was brought in. I remember looking out of my bedroom window, as a small child, watching the machinery & the men demolishing it'. Judy Broadbent writes 'William Coates Randall, 1881-1937, was Station Master at Clifton Mill Station from February 1909 to 1913, he is buried in Nassington Cemetery. William became the youngest ever station master at Billing, aged 16 years, 5 months'.

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