Ayot railway station

Ayot
The station in the early twentieth century
Location
Place	Welwyn Garden City
Area	Welwyn Hatfield
Operations
Original company	Great Northern Railway
Pre-grouping	Great Northern Railway
Post-grouping	London and North Eastern Railway
Platforms	2
History
2 July 1877	Station opens as Ayott St Peters
1 April 1878	Station renamed Ayott
October 1878	Station renamed Ayot
26 July 1948	Station closes
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Ayot was a railway station serving Ayot St Peter near Welwyn Garden City in Hertfordshire, England. It was on the branch line to Dunstable.

History

Opened by the Great Northern Railway, it became part of the London and North Eastern Railway during the Grouping of 1923. The station then passed on to British Railways on nationalisation in 1948 but was closed by the British Railways Board that year when the station was destroyed by fire and never rebuilt.

The site today

The trackbed is now part of a local rail trail called Ayot Greenway.^[1]

References

• Butt, R. V. J. (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 1-8526-0508-1. OCLC 60251199. 
• Jowett, Alan (2000). Jowett's Nationalised Railway Atlas (1st ed.). Penryn, Cornwall: Atlantic Transport Publishers. ISBN 0-9068-9999-0. OCLC 228266687. 

External links

• Ayot station on navigable O. S. map
• Ayot station on disused-stations.org.uk

Coordinates: 51°48′54″N 0°13′46″W / 51.81503°N 0.22935°W / 51.81503; -0.22935