| HER Number (PRN): | 33096 |
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| Name: | Site of Maesbrook station, Potteries Shrewsbury & North Wales Railway, Shropshire & Montgomery (Light) Railway |
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| Type of Record: | Monument |
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Protected Status: | None recorded |
Monument Type(s):
- HOUSE (Unknown date)
- RAILWAY STATION (Late 19th century to 20th century (inter-war) - 1886 AD to 1933 AD)
Summary
A railway station opened on 13th August 1866 and closed on 21st December 1866. Re-opened December 1868 and closed 22nd June 1880. Re-opened once again on 14th April 1911 and closed finally 6th November 1933. It did remain in Goods till 29th February 1960.
| Map Sheet: | SJ32SW |
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| Grid Reference: | SJ 30124 20719 |
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Related records
| 08453 | Part of: Potteries, Shrewsbury & North Wales Railway (the Potts Railway) (Monument) |
| 08006 | Part of: Shropshire & Montgomeryshire Light Railway (Monument) |
Associated Finds: None recorded
Associated Events: None recorded
Description
Original station had two stone platforms just E of level crossing. N platform removed c. 1867when the line was singled. Wooden shelter on S platform had disappeared by c. 1900s and was replaced by S&M. <1>
Shown on Ordnace Survey map 1:10560 which shows station building and level crossing. <2>
Photograph taken 24th June 2017. By this date everything had gone apart from the track bed and the stone face of the S platform in front of a new build residential house. <3>
Site of railway station on the Shropshire and Montgomeryshire Railway, opened in 1911, closed to passengers in 1931 and entirely in 1960. <4>
Sources
| [01] | SSA29132 - Article in serial: Morriss Richard K. 1985. A gazetteer of passenger railway stations in Shropshire. Trans Shropshire Archaeol Hist Soc. 64. pp.89-105. No 89. |
| [02] | SSA22419 - Map: Ordnance Survey. c1872-1897. OS County Series 1:10560 (6 inch) maps (1st edition) - digital dataset. OS County Series. |
| [03] | SSA27226 - HER comment: Haynes J B. 2014 onwards. Comments by J B Haynes, HER Compiler. 13/07/2017. |
| [04] | SSA31555 - COLLECTION: Historic England. 2020 onwards. NRHE: National Record of the Historic Environment. HOB UID 500876. |
| Date Last Edited: | Jul 8 2021 11:31AM |
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