page_title: Alcester–Bearley branch line
section_title: North Warwickshire Railway
hierarchical_section_title: Alcester–Bearley branch line / North Warwickshire Railway
caption_attribution_description: English: System map of the former Alcester Railway, now GWR, in Warwickshire, England, in 1907
context_page_description: The Alcester–Bearley branch line was a ​6 ³⁄₄-mile single-track branch railway line in Warwickshire, England. It was built by the Alcester Railway Company. It connected the manufacturing town of Alcester into the Great Western Railway network, opening in 1876.
  Running through sparsely populated country, it was never commercially successful. During World War I it was closed and its track used in support of the war effort. During World War II it brought Coventry factory workers to a relocated manufacturing plant near the line when their own factory had been bombed.
  The line closed in 1951.
context_section_description: The construction of the North Warwickshire line by the Great Western Railway in 1907 affected the branch. West of Bearley it created a triangular junction by adding a southern chord; and it used the formation of the Alcester branch for 250 yards. Bearley to Bearley North Junction (on the original Alcester Railway route) was temporarily taken out of use from 5 June 1907 until 9 December 1907, during which period trains from Bearley to Alcester reversed at Bearley West Junction using the chord line which had just opened.
caption: The Alcester line in 1907
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