Abbey Foregate railway station

Abbey Foregate railway station was in Shrewsbury, Shropshire, south-east of Shrewsbury station, to the east of Severn Bridge Junction, on what is today the Shrewsbury to Wolverhampton Line. Despite its name, the nearest road was Underdale Road, not Abbey Foregate.

Abbey Foregate
General information
LocationShrewsbury, Shropshire
England
Coordinates52.7095°N 2.741°W / 52.7095; -2.741
Grid referenceSJ501127
Platforms1
Other information
StatusDisused
History
Original companyShrewsbury and Birmingham Railway
Pre-groupingShrewsbury and Wellington Joint Railway
Key dates
1 June 1849opened
c. 1900renamed Abbey Foregate Platform
30 September 1912closed

History

Opened by the Shrewsbury and Birmingham Railway in 1849, the station name was changed to Abbey Foregate Platform around 1900. It closed to passengers in 1912.[1]

Today there remains a signal box on the line to Wolverhampton called Abbey Foregate (code of 'AF'). It controls the junction and the access to Abbey Foregate Yard. No remains of the platform exist.

See also

References
  1. Butt 1995, p. 11.

Bibliography
  • Butt, R.V.J. (1995). The Directory of Railway Stations. Patrick Stephens Ltd. ISBN 1-85260-508-1
  • Jowett, A. (2000). Jowett's Nationalised Railway Atlas. Atlantic Publishing. ISBN 0-906899-99-0

Further reading
  • Mitchell, Vic; Smith, Keith (2009). Wolverhampton to Shrewsbury. Middleton Press. fig. 110. ISBN 9781906008444. OCLC 286385795.
Preceding station   Disused railways   Following station
Shrewsbury
Line and station open		   Great Western Railway
Shrewsbury and Birmingham Railway		   Upton Magna
Line open, station closed
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