Monument Type(s):

• RAILWAY WORKS (Mid 19th century to 20th century (post-war) - 1852 AD? to 1970 AD)

Summary

The site of a 19th to 20th century railway works.

Related records

Associated Finds: None recorded

Associated Events: None recorded

Description

Locomotive Department. Noted in survey history on map that these Works and associated railway lines added in 1862 <1>

Midland Railway Carriage and Wagon Works <2><3>

Works indicated not titled. Same building as depicted on reference sources [<2>] and [<3>] <4>

Works. Not the same building as depicted on reference sources 2 and 3. Map indicates historic building(s) have been demolished <5>

The railway works were originally the Coleham repair depot of the Shrewsbury & Hereford Railway (SHR) [PRN 05407], which railway opened in 1852-3. When the Great Western (GWR) and London & North Western (LNWR) jointly leased the SHR in 1862, they divided up the Coleham depot. The GWR had other depots at Coton Hill, Benbow Place and Underdale Road, but it eventually closed these and built a new depot at Coleham, alongside the LNWR works. The Potts Railway also had its works, known as the Abbey Works on this extended Coleham site, but this was eventually taken over by the Midland Railway Carriage & Wagon Works of Birmingham. ->

-> The Coleham sheds were shut down in 1970 and subsequently demolished. <6>

<01> Ordnance Survey, 1833, OS First Edition 1 inch Map Sheet 61 - Shrewsbury (Map). SSA1395.

<02> Ordnance Survey, 1887, OS County Series 34SE, 1887 (Map). SSA9759.

<03> Ordnance Survey, 1902, OS County Series 34.11, 1902 (Map). SSA9760.

<04> Ordnance Survey, 1954, OS SJ41SE, 1954 (Map). SSA9761.

<05> Ordnance Survey, 1983, OS SJ41SE, 1983 (Map). SSA9719.

<06> Morriss Richard K, 1991, Railways of Shropshire, p19,25,36 (Monograph). SSA20232.

<07> Trinder Barrie, 1996, The Industrial Archaeology of Shropshire, p63 (Monograph). SSA21923.

Sources

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