Ayot railway station

Ayot was a railway station serving Ayot St Peter near Welwyn Garden City in Hertfordshire, England. It was on the branch line to Dunstable.

Ayot
The station in the early twentieth century
General information
Location	Welwyn Garden City, Welwyn Hatfield England
Platforms	2
Other information
Status	Disused
History
Original company	Great Northern Railway
Pre-grouping	Great Northern Railway
Post-grouping	London and North Eastern Railway
Key dates
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 to passengers
1 May 1963	closed for goods traffic

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 British Railways that year when the station was destroyed by fire and never rebuilt.[1]

Preceding station		Disused railways		Following station
Wheathampstead		Great Northern Railway Dunstable Branch		Welwyn Garden City

The site today

The trackbed is now part of a local rail trail called Ayot Greenway.

References

• 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.

External links

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