Abbey Foregate railway station

Abbey Foregate
General information
Location	Shrewsbury, Shropshire England
Coordinates	52.7095°N 2.741°W / 52.7095; -2.741
Grid reference	SJ501127
Platforms	1
Other information
Status	Disused
History
Original company	Shrewsbury and Birmingham Railway
Pre-grouping	Shrewsbury and Wellington Joint Railway
Key dates
1 June 1849	opened
c. 1900	renamed Abbey Foregate Platform
30 September 1912	closed

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

1. Butt 1995, p. 11.

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