Monument Type(s):

• HOUSE (Unknown date)
• RAILWAY STATION (Mid 19th century to 20th century (post-war) - 1848 AD to 1960 AD)

Summary

Railway station opened 12th October 1848 and closed 12 September 1960. It remained in Goods until 7th October 1963. '& West Felton' added 16th October 1907.

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Associated Finds: None recorded

Associated Events: None recorded

Description

Two platformed station 100 yards S of double underbridge of road and canal. Fine neo-Tudor station House on W platform reached by its own access road. Waiting room added later to E platform. Goods yard was quite large to the N, and given large goods shed later. For a short while in the 1850s a packet boat express service of the SUR&C ran from Newtown (Montgomeryshire) to the nearby canal wharf, connecting with the trains, Signal box to N, W of line. <1>

Shown on 2nd edition Ordnance Survey 1:2500 map. Shows main station buiding to W, with patform and small waiting room to E. Goods shed in large yard to N with Signal Box to N, W of line and Signal point to E of line. The wharf is further to the N. <2>

Line still in use. Main station building survives - converted to residential use. <3>

Photographs taken 1st July 2017. Goods yard and shed also remain but now appear to be used for alternative (farm?) purposes. <4>

Listed at Grade II on 19/02/2019, together with goods shed to the W (see PRN 34527). ->

-> The station at Rednal stands on the line which opened as the Shrewsbury and Chester Railway in October 1848. The Shrewsbury and Chester Railway Company (S&CRC) had been formed in 1846, following a merger of the North Wales Mineral Railway and the Shrewsbury, Oswestry and Chester Junction Railway. This merger allowed the new company to use sections of line which had already been constructed near Chester and Wrexham, with new tracks being laid to carry the line further south. The engineer for the line was Henry Robertson, with contractor Thomas Brassey in partnership with William Mackenzie and Robert Stephenson. ->

-> The station building at Rednal was designed by the architect Thomas Penson (junior) of Chester, who lived from around 1790 - 1859 and worked widely in the local area and in North Wales. His work was varied, including numerous country houses, churches and at least one cemetery. He seems to have designed most, if not all, of the original station buildings on the S&CRC line, many of which appear to survive. Those at Shrewsbury, Gobowen, Whittington and Baschurch are all listed at Grade II (NHLE numbers 1246546, 1054224, 1180264 and 1176173 respectively). These survivals also show the varying styles adopted for the different stations along the line, including Tudor Gothic, Italianate and Cottage Orne. ->

-> The station at Rednal had a passenger terminal as well as a goods shed, which was set off to one side of the railway. In 1854 the S&CRC line became part of the Great Western Railway, and in 1907 the station was renamed Rednal and West Felton. It is understood to have closed in the 1960s, and the station building appears to have been used as a residential dwelling for sometime since then. It is currently unoccupied. <5>

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