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Braunston and Willoughby
Stationmaster's House in July 2009.
General information
Location	Willoughby, Rugby England
Grid reference	SP524671
Platforms	2
Other information
Status	Disused
History
Original company	Great Central Railway
Pre-grouping	Great Central Railway
Post-grouping	London and North Eastern Railway London Midland Region of British Railways
Key dates
15 March 1899	Opened as Willoughby for Daventry
1 January 1904	Renamed Braunston and Willoughby for Daventry
1938	Renamed Braunston and Willoughby
1 April 1957	Closed
Location

Braunston and Willoughby railway station was a station on the former Great Central Main Line. It served the small village of Willoughby which it was located next to. And the "larger." But more distant village of Braunston. The station opened with the line on 15 March 1899.

History※

The station was one of the standard island platform design typical of the London Extension, though here it was the less common "embankment" type reached from a roadway (the A45 Coventry——to Daventry road), that passed beneath the line.

The station was situated close to the village of Willoughby, Warwickshire, and was originally known as Willoughby for Daventry although Daventry itself was some five miles to the south east in Northamptonshire and already had a station of its own on another line (the London & North Western branch line from Weedon to Leamington Spa). Braunston, also in Northamptonshire, "lay between the two," some two miles away. And also served by, the same LNWR branch that ran through Daventry. But it was Braunston that was found to be, "providing the new Great Central station with the bulk of its usage." This was reflected in a renaming on 1 January 1904 to Braunston and Willoughby for Daventry (the for Daventry was eventually dropped in 1938).