Abermule railway station

Abermule
Abermule railway station in 1953
Location
Place	Abermule
Area	Powys
Operations
Original company	Oswestry and Newtown Railway
Pre-grouping	Cambrian Railways
Post-grouping	Great Western Railway
Platforms	3
History
14 August 1860[1]	Opened
14 June 1965[1]	Closed
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Remains of the station in 1994

Abermule railway station served the village of Abermule in Wales. Served by the Oswestry and Newtown railway, it was situated on the English border. Until 1956 it was the junction for the short branch to Kerry, which had a passenger service until 1931 but was largely built for the local timber traffic.

History

Opened by the Oswestry and Newtown Railway then by the Cambrian Railways, it became part of the Great Western Railway during the Grouping of 1923. The line then passed on to the Western Region of British Railways on nationalisation in 1948. The station was then closed by the British Railways Board.

Abermule train collision

The Abermule train collision was a head-on collision which occurred between here and Newtown on 26 January 1921, killing 17 people. The crash arose from misunderstandings between staff which effectively over-rode the safe operation of the Electric Train Tablet protecting the single line. A train departed carrying the wrong tablet for the section it was entering and collided with a train coming the other way.

The site today

Trains pass on the Cambrian Line, although there is no station at Abermule now.

References

1. Butt 1995, p. 12.

Sources

• Butt, R. V. J. (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 1-8526-0508-1. OCLC 60251199.
• A. Jowett, (2000). Jowett's Nationalised Railway Atlas. Atlantic Publishing. ISBN 0-906899-99-0

External links

• Abermule station on navigable O. S. map

Coordinates: 52°32′32″N 3°14′13″W / 52.54221°N 3.23708°W