Abbey Foregate railway station

52°42′34″N 2°44′28″W / 52.7095°N 2.741°W / 52.7095; -2.741Grid referenceSJ501127Platforms1Other informationStatusDisusedHistoryOriginal companyShrewsbury and Birmingham RailwayPre-groupingShrewsbury and Wellington Joint RailwayKey dates1 June 1849openedc. 1900renamed Abbey Foregate Platform30 September 1912closed

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.

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.^[1]

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

Bibliography

• Butt, R.V.J. (1995). The Directory of Railway Stations. Patrick Stephens Ltd. ISBN 1-85260-508-1
• Jowett, A. (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 Line and station open		Great Western Railway Shrewsbury and Birmingham Railway		Upton Magna Line open, station closed