Shifnal railway station

Shifnal National Rail
Location
Place Shifnal
Local authority Shropshire Council
Grid reference SJ749076
Operations
Station code SFN
Managed by West Midlands Trains
Number of platforms 2
DfT category F2
Live arrivals/departures, station information and onward connections
from National Rail Enquiries
Annual rail passenger usage*
2012/13 Decrease 121,628
2013/14 Increase 133,230
2014/15 Decrease 131,214
2015/16 Increase 144,532
2016/17 Increase 166,046
History
Key dates Opened 1849 (1849)
National Rail – UK railway stations
* Annual estimated passenger usage based on sales of tickets in stated financial year(s) which end or originate at Shifnal from Office of Rail and Road statistics. Methodology may vary year on year.
UK Railways portal

Shifnal railway station is a station on the former Great Western Railway's London Paddington to Birkenhead via Birmingham Snow Hill line. The station is managed by West Midlands Trains, who provide the majority of services that call here (it is also served by Arriva Trains Wales, primarily on Sundays)

The station (opened in 1849) is located on a viaduct/causeway high above the town itself. It is on the Shrewsbury to Wolverhampton Line. When Shifnal was controlled by semaphore signalling it boasted a three-storey signal box. The building by the entrance at street level is not in railway use and there are no permanent buildings left at platform level.[1]

Facilities

The station is unstaffed, but does have a ticket machine. Waiting shelters are provided on both platforms and service running information is given via CIS displays, timetable poster boards and customer help points on each side. Level access is possible from the car park on the Birmingham-bound platform (1) only - the main entrance on Market Place is below platform level and is only accessible via a staircase, whilst the footbridge between the two platforms also has steps.[2]

Services

There is a basic hourly off-peak service in each direction (Mon-Sat), westbound to Shrewsbury and eastbound to Wolverhampton and Birmingham New Street run by West Midlands Railway. Additional trains call at peak periods. Arriva Trains Wales run a single late night service each way (Mon-Sat) and also provide a two-hourly Wolverhampton to Shrewsbury service each way on Sundays (some trains run through to Chester and Birmingham International), as no WMR services operate on the route.[3]

References

  1. ↑ Main entrance to Shifnal station Jaggery, Geograph.org.uk; Retrieved 3 August 2017
  2. ↑ Shifnal station facilities National Rail Enquiries
  3. ↑ GB eNRT May 2017 Edition, Table 74 (Network Rail)

Further reading

  • Mitchell, Vic; Smith, Keith (2009). Wolverhampton to Shrewsbury. Middleton Press. figs. 75-78. ISBN 9781906008444. OCLC 286385795.
Preceding station National Rail Following station
Cosford   Arriva Trains Wales
Birmingham - Chester		   Telford Central
Cosford   West Midlands Railway
Wolverhampton/Birmingham-Shrewsbury
Mondays-Saturdays only		   Telford Central

Coordinates: 52°39′58″N 2°22′19″W / 52.666°N 2.372°W / 52.666; -2.372


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