Shrewsbury Abbey railway station
Former railway station in Shropshire, England. / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Shrewsbury Abbey was a railway station in Shrewsbury, Shropshire, England part of the Shropshire and Montgomeryshire Railway. It was named after the nearby Shrewsbury Abbey. The station had an adjacent goods yard and wagon building works.
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Shrewsbury Abbey | |
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General information | |
Location | Shrewsbury, Shropshire England |
Coordinates | 52.7069°N 2.7435°W / 52.7069; -2.7435 |
Grid reference | SJ498123 |
Platforms | 1 |
Other information | |
Status | Disused |
History | |
Original company | Potteries, Shrewsbury and North Wales Railway |
Pre-grouping | Shropshire and Montgomeryshire Railway |
Post-grouping | Shropshire and Montgomeryshire Railway |
Key dates | |
13 August 1866 (1866-08-13) | Station opened |
21 December 1866 | Closed |
December 1868 | Reopened |
22 June 1880 | Closed |
14 April 1911 | Reopened by S&MR |
6 November 1933 | Closed for public services |
1941 | Reopened (for restricted service) by War Department |
29 February 1960 | Closed completely |
Shrewsbury Abbey was originally planned to be just one station on a railway from Llanymynech to Market Drayton but when financial problems halted the project, it became the permanent terminus. However it was never connected to Shrewsbury Station. All passenger services would have to change here. This was because access to the mainline station was rejected on financial grounds and the obstruction of Shrewsbury station's joint operators, the Great Western Railway (GWR) and the London and North Western Railway.