Monument Type(s):

• RAILWAY STATION (Mid 19th century to 20th century (post-war) - 1861 AD to 1962 AD)

Summary

A railway station opened in 1861 and closed in 1962.

Related records

Associated Finds: None recorded

Associated Events: None recorded

Description

Tenbury Wells station opened on 1/8/1861 and closed 1/8/1962. The town is in Worcestershire, but the station is to the N, over the Shropshire boundary. Two platformed station just W of overbridge with its imposing main station buildings on the S side. Waiting room on the N side with a rather peculiar signal box of stone-edge brick under a steeply pitched roof. Smallish goods yard. <1>

Plan of station building indicating development sequence reproduced in report from 1999 (revised 2003). Shows extent of station building and internal reorganization from 1913. <2>

Shown on 2nd edition Ordnance Survey 1:2500 map, incuding platform, mile post, signal point and weighing machine. <3>

Station building survives, although extended and altered. Track,signal point, mile post and weighing machine removed. <4>

Photograph taken 31st July 2017. The buildings in the background are part of the later Factory complex. <5>

<01> Morriss Richard K, 1985, A gazetteer of passenger railway stations in Shropshire, No 135 (Article in serial). SSA29132.

<02> Anon, 2003, Stations of the Severn Valley Railway & its associated routes: a study into their design, use and conservation, Appedix 1b (Manuscript). SSA24234.

<03> Ordnance Survey, c1899-1903, OS County Series 1:2500 maps (2nd edition) - digital dataset (Map). SSA20952.

<04> Getmapping plc, 2012, Get Mapping Digital Aerial Photographic 25cm Resolution Data Set for Shropshire (Current) (Vertical aerial photograph). SSA24179.

<05> Haynes J B, 2014 onwards, Comments by J B Haynes, HER Compiler, 11/10/2017 (SMR comment). SSA27226.

Sources

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