Abbey Foregate railway station

Abbey Foregate
Location
Place	Shrewsbury
Area	Shropshire
Operations
Original company	Shrewsbury and Birmingham Railway
Pre-grouping	Shrewsbury and Wellington Joint Railway
Platforms	1
History
1 June 1849	opened
c. 1900	renamed Abbey Foregate Platform
30 September 1912	closed
Disused railway stations in the United Kingdom
Closed railway stations in Britain A B C D–F G H–J K–L M–O P–R S T–V W–Z
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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.

History

Opened by the Shrewsbury and Birmingham Railway in 1849, the station name was changed to Abbey Foregate Platform around 1900. Becoming part of the Great Western Railway, it closed to passengers in 1912.

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.

References

R.V.J.Butt, (1995). The Directory of Railway Stations. Patrick Stephens Ltd. ISBN 1-85260-508-1

A. Jowett, (2000). Jowett's Nationalised Railway Atlas. Atlantic Publishing. ISBN 0-906899-99-0

Preceding station	Disused railways			Following station
Shrewsbury		Great Western Railway Shrewsbury and Birmingham Railway		Upton Magna

Buildings and structures in Shrewsbury

Civic	HM Prison Shrewsbury Shrewsbury Library Shrewsbury Museum and Art Gallery

Railway stations	Abbey Foregate railway station Shrewsbury railway station Shrewsbury Abbey railway station

Educational	Belvidere School Meole Brace School Prestfelde School Priory School Shrewsbury College of Arts & Technology Shrewsbury High School Shrewsbury School Shrewsbury Sixth Form College Sundorne School Wakeman School

Hospitals	Royal Shrewsbury Hospital

Churches	Barnabas Community Church Greyfriars Christ Church, Shelton and Oxon Shrewsbury Abbey Shrewsbury Cathedral Shrewsbury Unitarian Church St Chad's Church St Mary's Church

Pubs	Golden Cross

Complexes	Darwin Shopping Centre New Riverside Shrewsbury Business Park The Parade Shopping Centre

Sports venues	Gay Meadow New Meadow

Historic	Coleham Pumping Station Ditherington Flax Mill The Mount Old Market Hall Shrewsbury Castle Town Walls Tower

Monuments	Lord Hill's Column The Quantum Leap

Bridges	Castle Walk Footbridge English Bridge Kingsland Bridge Porthill Bridge St George's Bridge Welsh Bridge

Coordinates: 52°42′34″N 2°44′28″W / 52.7095°N 2.741°W / 52.7095; -2.741

Closed railway stations in Shropshire

Severn Valley Railway	Berrington Cound Halt Cressage Buildwas Iron Bridge and Broseley Jackfield Halt Coalport West Linley Halt Eardington Halt Alveley Halt

Coalport Branch Line	Oakengates Market Street Malins Lee Dawley and Stirchley Madeley Market Coalport East

Tenbury and Bewdley Railway	Neen Sollars Cleobury Mortimer

Cleobury Mortimer and Ditton Priors Light Railway	Ditton Priors Halt Cleobury North Crossing Burwarton Halt Aston Botterell Siding Stottesdon Halt Prescott Spring Detton Ford Siding Chilton Halt Cleobury Town Halt

Wellington and Severn Junction Railway	Ketley Ketley Town Halt New Dale Halt Lawley Bank Horsehay and Dawley Doseley Halt Lightmoor Platform Green Bank Halt Iron Bridge Gorge Coalbrookdale

Much Wenlock and Severn Junction Railway	Farley Halt Much Wenlock Westwood Halt Presthope Easthope Halt Longville Rushbury Harton Road

Shropshire Union Railways	Newport (Shropshire) Donnington Trench Crossing Hadley

Shrewsbury and Birmingham Railway	Abbey Foregate Upton Magna Walcot Admaston

Shrewsbury and Hereford Railway	Condover Dorrington Leebotwood All Stretton Halt Little Stretton Halt Marsh Brook Wistanstow Halt Onibury Bromfield Ashford Bowdler Woofferton

Shrewsbury and Chester Railway	Trehowell Halt Weston Rhyn Whittington Low Level Rednal and West Felton Haughton Halt Stanwardine Halt Baschurch Oldwoods Halt Leaton

Wellington and Drayton Railway	Little Drayton Halt Tern Hill Wollerton Halt Hodnet Peplow Ellerdine Halt Rowton Halt Crudgington Longdon Halt

Bishops Castle Railway	Bishop's Castle Lydham Heath Eaton Plowden Horderley Stretford Bridge Halt

Shropshire and Montgomeryshire Railway	Melverley Chapel Lane Maesbrook Wern Las Kinnerley Junction Edgerley Nesscliffe and Pentre Shrawardine Ford and Crossgates Shoot Hill Cruckton Edgebold Hookagate and Redhill Meole Brace Shrewsbury West Shrewsbury Abbey

Minsterley branch line	Plealey Road Pontesbury Minsterley

Shrewsbury and Welshpool Railway	Plas-y-Court Halt Westbury (Salop) Yockleton Hanwood

Oswestry, Ellesmere and Whitchurch Railway	Ellesmere Frankton Whittington High Level Tinkers Green Halt Forest Hall

Oswestry and Newtown Railway	Llynclys Pant (Salop)

Wrexham and Ellesmere Railway	Trench Halt Elson Halt

Other	Hadhall Madeley Market Drayton New Hadley Halt Norton-in-Hales

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Abbey Foregate railway station

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