Coalport Branch Line

Coalport Branch Line

Legend
 Stafford to Shrewsbury Line
Hadley
Wombridge (goods)
Oakengates Market Street
Wolverhampton to Shrewsbury Line
Malinslee
Wolverhampton to Shrewsbury Line
Dawley and Stirchley
Madeley Market
Legge's Sidings
Coalport East

The Coalport Branch Line was a standard gauge London and North Western Railway branch line in Shropshire from the Stafford to Shrewsbury Line to Coalport, via Oakengates. It closed to passengers in 1952 and regular freight on 5 December 1960;[1] it finally closed to even sporadic traffic on 6 July 1964. On 9 April 1980 the 2 ft (610 mm) gauge Telford Town Tramway was opened by the Reverend W. Awdry on the trackbed of the Coalport branch alongside Randlay Pool in Telford Town Park.[2][3] The tramway only lasted a few years before it closed in the mid-1980s. The tram has since been preserved by the Telford Steam Railway running on its own circular track by Horsehay Pool.

References

  1. ↑ Cooke, B.W.C., ed. (January 1960). "Coalport Freight Line Closed". Notes and News. The Railway Magazine. Vol. 107 no. 717 (Westminster: Tothill Press). p. 64.
  2. ↑ "Video on the opening of the tramway (starts at 13:30 in)". Vimeo. Retrieved 13 December 2015.
  3. ↑ "Video with the opening of Telford Town Tramway alone without the intertitle". Telford Our New Town. Retrieved 13 December 2015.

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