Abbey Foregate railway station

Abbey Foregate railway station was in Shrewsbury, Shropshire, south-east of Shrewsbury station, to the east of Severn Bridge Junction, on what is today the Shrewsbury to Wolverhampton Line. Despite its name, the nearest road was Underdale Road, not Abbey Foregate.

Abbey Foregate
Location
PlaceShrewsbury
AreaShropshire
Coordinates52.7095°N 2.741°W / 52.7095; -2.741
Grid referenceSJ501127
Operations
Original companyShrewsbury and Birmingham Railway
Pre-groupingShrewsbury and Wellington Joint Railway
Platforms1
History
1 June 1849opened
c. 1900renamed Abbey Foregate Platform
30 September 1912closed
Disused railway stations in the United Kingdom
Closed railway stations in Britain
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History

Opened by the Shrewsbury and Birmingham Railway in 1849, the station name was changed to Abbey Foregate Platform around 1900. It closed to passengers in 1912.

Today there remains a signal box on the line to Wolverhampton called Abbey Foregate (code of 'AF'). It controls the junction and the access to Abbey Foregate Yard. No remains of the platform exist.

See also
  • Shrewsbury Abbey (railway station) - a station on Abbey Foregate

References
  • R.V.J.Butt (1995). The Directory of Railway Stations. Patrick Stephens Ltd. ISBN 1-85260-508-1
  • A. Jowett (2000). Jowett's Nationalised Railway Atlas. Atlantic Publishing. ISBN 0-906899-99-0

Further reading
  • Mitchell, Vic; Smith, Keith (2009). Wolverhampton to Shrewsbury. Middleton Press. fig. 110. ISBN 9781906008444. OCLC 286385795.
Preceding station   Disused railways   Following station
Shrewsbury   Great Western Railway
Shrewsbury and Birmingham Railway		   Upton Magna
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