Buildwas railway station

Buildwas
The station in 1962
Location
Place	Buildwas
Area	Shropshire
Coordinates	52°38′03″N 2°31′00″W / 52.6342°N 2.5167°W / 52.6342; -2.5167Coordinates: 52°38′03″N 2°31′00″W / 52.6342°N 2.5167°W / 52.6342; -2.5167
Grid reference	SJ651041
Operations
Original company	Severn Valley Railway
Pre-grouping	Great Western Railway
Post-grouping	Great Western Railway
Platforms	3
History
1 February 1862	Opened
9 September 1963	Closed^[1]
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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Buildwas railway station was an important bustling junction station after the opening of the Severn Valley line in the mid-19th century. The station had platforms at two different levels and, at its peak, had a total of eleven staff, including the station master. Up to 1923 the area was controlled by two signal boxes, the Station signal box controlling the station area and the Junction signal box controlling the junction between the Severn Valley line and the double track line across the Albert Edward Bridge towards Lightmoor Junction. These were replaced with a single signal box approximately midway between its predecessors in 1923. This box was subsequently enlarged to accommodate a frame containing 113 levers on 9 December 1931. The track layout was altered several times during its existence including the additional CEGB sidings opened in 1932. Although thought by some people to have been closed as part of the Beeching axe in 1963 its planned closure pre-dated his report. The station was demolished to make way for Ironbridge B Power Station. Coal is now offloaded for the power station close to the site of the original station.

The Telford Steam Railway has aspirations to operate to this site when the expected closure of the power station takes place around 2015 by its present operator E.ON, running over the Albert Edward Bridge to a new terminus on or close to the site of Buildwas station.

References

↑ 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. p. 46. ISBN 1-8526-0508-1. OCLC 60251199.

Preceding station	Disused railways			Following station
Cressage Line and station closed		Great Western Railway Severn Valley Railway		Ironbridge and Broseley Line and station closed
Coalbrookdale Line and station closed		Great Western Railway Wellington to Craven Arms Railway		Farley Halt Line and station closed

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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