Westbury railway station (Shropshire)

Westbury (Salop)
Location
Place	Westbury
Area	Shropshire
Coordinates	52°41′33″N 2°58′06″W / 52.6925°N 2.9684°W / 52.6925; -2.9684Coordinates: 52°41′33″N 2°58′06″W / 52.6925°N 2.9684°W / 52.6925; -2.9684
Grid reference	SJ346109
Operations
Original company	Shrewsbury and Welshpool Railway
Pre-grouping	LNWR and GWR joint
Post-grouping	LMS and GWR joint
Platforms	2
History
1861	Opened[1]
1960	Closed[1]
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Westbury railway station was a station in Westbury, Shropshire, England. The station was opened in 1861 by the Shrewsbury and Welshpool Railway company, later coming under the joint control of the Great Western Railway and the London and North Western Railway. It closed (along with all the other intermediate stations) on 12 September 1960,^[1] though it retained its passing loop and signal box until 1988, when the modernisation scheme for the line saw Radio Electronic Token Block signalling commissioned, all remaining manual signal boxes closed and control pass to the signalling centre at Machynlleth. Just a year earlier, the loop was the site of a head-on collision between two passenger trains after one passed a signal at danger. One of the two Class 150 Diesel Multiple Units involved was derailed and 37 people were injured.^[2]

The former main building survives here in private occupation, along with the now automatic level crossing over the B4387 road.^[3]

References

Further reading

• Mitchell, Vic; Smith, Keith (2008). Shrewsbury to Newtown. Middleton Press. figs. 51-56. ISBN 9781906008291. OCLC 228374968.