Coalport West railway station

Coalport West
Coalport railway station in 1963
Location
Place	Coalport
Area	Shropshire
Coordinates	52°36′54″N 2°26′32″W / 52.6151°N 2.4423°W / 52.6151; -2.4423Coordinates: 52°36′54″N 2°26′32″W / 52.6151°N 2.4423°W / 52.6151; -2.4423
Grid reference	SJ701019
Operations
Original company	Severn Valley Railway
Pre-grouping	Great Western Railway
Post-grouping	Great Western Railway
Platforms	3
History
1 February 1862 (1862-02-01)	Opened as Coalport
?	Renamed Coalport West
9 September 1963 (1963-09-09)	Closed
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The GWR Coalport railway station was originally built as a single through platform railway station on the Severn Valley Line serving the village of Coalport in Shropshire, England. By 1925 an additional platform had been added thus permitting up and down trains to pass along with a third platform face behind the up platform formed an east facing bay. By this time, the goods sidings to the east of the station had been expanded.

Although the bay platform has been filled in, the platform edgeing bricks remain. The space between the two main platform faces has been only partially filled and the station thus retains much of its former character. The station lies on a dismantled section of the Severn Valley Line north of Bridgnorth and has been sold into private hands as a dwelling. The building is very similar in style to Arley on the Severn Valley Railway and retains many of its original architectural features having been extended in a sympathetic manner.

Two converted British Railways Mark 1 carriages stand on a short length of track between the platforms and are used as holiday accommodation. Although thought by some people to have been closed as part of the Beeching axe in 1963, its planned closure pre-dated his report.

A length of the railway formation which runs parallel to the platforms continues to Bridgnorth which is now part of the National Cycle Network 45 which runs from Salisbury, Wiltshire to Chester, Cheshire .

The former site of Coalport East Railway Station lies almost directly on the opposite side of the River Severn.

Preceding station	Disused railways			Following station
Jackfield Halt Line and station closed		Great Western Railway Severn Valley Railway		Linley 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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