Marshbrook railway station

Marshbrook
The site of the station in 2012
General information
Location	Marshbrook, Shropshire England
Coordinates	52°30′11″N2°49′23″W / 52.5030°N 2.8231°W / 52.5030; -2.8231
Grid reference	SO442897
Platforms	2
Other information
Status	Disused
History
Original company	Shrewsbury and Hereford Railway
Pre-grouping	LNWR and GWR joint
Post-grouping	LMS and GWR joint
Key dates
21 April 1852	Opened [1]
9 June 1958	Closed [1]
Location

Marshbrook railway station was a station in Marshbrook, Shropshire, England. The station was opened in 1852 and closed in 1958. ^{[1] [2]}

History

Marshbrook station was constructed in 1852 for the railway company comprising a stationmaster's house, waiting room and ticket office. The station was closed in 1958 ^{[1] [2]} and the building was subsequently used as a private house, before it was demolished in 2019. A signal box and level crossing remain.

Signal box

Marshbrook Signal Box is the oldest operational signal box of its type surviving on the national railway network and was built by the London & North Western Railway in 1872. It was made a Grade II listed building in 2013, in order to save it from the planned removal of mechanical signalling on the line. ^[3]

References

1. "Stations". Shropshire History. Archived from the original on 6 September 2017. Retrieved 16 March 2017.
2. Quick, M. E. (2002). Railway passenger stations in England, Scotland and Wales – a chronology. Richmond: Railway and Canal Historical Society. p. 289. OCLC   931112387.
3. BBC News

Further reading

• Mitchell, Vic; Smith, Keith (2008). Shrewsbury to Ludlow. Middleton Press. figs. 41–45. ISBN   9781906008215. OCLC   520487698.

Preceding station	Disused railways			Following station
Little Stretton Halt Line open, station closed		LNWR and GWR joint Shrewsbury and Hereford Railway		Wistanstow Halt Line open, station closed