New Hadley Halt railway station

New Hadley Halt
Location
Place Ketley
Area Shropshire
Coordinates 52°42′00″N 2°28′24″W / 52.7000°N 2.4734°W / 52.7000; -2.4734Coordinates: 52°42′00″N 2°28′24″W / 52.7000°N 2.4734°W / 52.7000; -2.4734
Grid reference SJ680115
Operations
Original company Great Western Railway
Post-grouping Great Western Railway
Platforms 2
History
3 November 1934 Opened[1]
13 May 1985 Closed[1]
Disused railway stations in the United Kingdom
Closed railway stations in Britain
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New Hadley Halt was a minor station between Oakengates and Wellington on the former Great Western Railway's London Paddington to Birkenhead via Birmingham Snow Hill line. It was opened by the Great Western Railway in 1934.[2] It was closed on 13 May 1985 due to uneconomic required repairs.[3] and it was demolished in 1986. Its grid reference was SJ 681 115.

References

  1. 1 2 "Station Name: New Hadley Halt". Disused Stations. Retrieved 18 March 2017.
  2. ↑ http://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/C197472
  3. ↑ "List of dates from 1 January 1985 to 20 January 2006 of last passenger trains at closed BR (or Network Rail stations since privatisation)" (PDF). Department for Transport Website: Freedom of Information Act responses, February 2006. Department for Transport. 2006. Archived from the original (PDF) on 12 May 2009. Retrieved 5 December 2014.

Further reading

  • Mitchell, Vic; Smith, Keith (2009). Wolverhampton to Shrewsbury. Middleton Press. figs. 91-93. ISBN 9781906008444. OCLC 286385795.
Preceding station Disused railways Following station
Wellington
Line and station open		   Great Western Railway
Wolverhampton–Shrewsbury line		   Oakengates
Line and station open


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