Linley Halt railway station

Linley, later Linley Halt, was a small railway station on the Severn Valley line in Shropshire, England.

Linley Halt
The site of Linley Halt, in 2007
Location
PlaceAstley Abbotts
AreaShropshire
Coordinates52.5817°N 2.4371°W / 52.5817; -2.4371
Grid referenceSO705983
Operations
Original companySevern Valley Railway
Pre-groupingGreat Western Railway
Post-groupingGreat Western Railway
Platforms1
History
1 February 1862 (1862-02-01)Station opened as Linley[1]
1 January 1917Temporarily closed[1]
2 April 1917Reopened[1]
10 September 1951Renamed Linley Halt
9 September 1963 (1963-09-09)Closed[1]
Disused railway stations in the United Kingdom
Closed railway stations in Britain
A B C D–F G H–J K–L M–O P–R S T–V W–Z

The station was built as a condition of constructing the railway at the behest of Thomas C. Whitmore of Apley Park estate, through which the railway runs.[2] Apley Hall lies on the opposite bank of the River Severn to the station. Access from the estate to the station was originally by ferry[3] and later via a chain suspension bridge.

The single siding accessed by means of a ground frame was taken out of use in December 1957. The siding connected with the running line with a trailing connection in the up direction. The station closed on 9 September 1963 as part of the planned closure of the northern end of the Severn Valley Line which pre-dated the Beeching report.

The little altered station building survives as a private residence although the canopy that provided shelter to passengers on the platform has been removed. The building is to the same design as Hampton Loade, on the preserved Severn Valley Railway.

References
  1. "Station Name: Linley Halt". Disused Stations. Retrieved 20 February 2018.
  2. Marshall, John (1989). The Severn Valley Railway. Newton Abbot: David St John Thomas. pp. 31–36. ISBN 0-946537-45-3.
  3. Ordnance Survey map 1903

Further reading
  • Mitchell, Vic; Smith, Keith (2007). Kidderminster to Shrewsbury. Middleton Press. figs. 80-82. ISBN 9781906008109. OCLC 154801530.
Preceding station   Disused railways   Following station
Coalport
Line and station closed		   Great Western Railway
Severn Valley Railway		   Bridgnorth
Line closed, station open


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