Abbey Foregate railway station

Abbey Foregate
Location
Place	Shrewsbury
Area	Shropshire
Operations
Original company	Shrewsbury and Birmingham Railway
Pre-grouping	Shrewsbury and Wellington Joint Railway
Post-grouping	Shrewsbury and Wellington Joint Railway
Platforms	1
History
1 June 1849	Station opens
c. 1900	Station renamed Abbey Foregate Platform
30 September 1912	Station closes
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

Abbey Foregate railway station was a station in Shrewsbury, Shropshire. It was located southeast 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, and not Abbey Foregate itself.

History

Opened by the Shrewsbury and Birmingham Railway in 1849, the station name was changed to Abbey Foregate Platform around 1900. Becoming part of the Great Western Railway, it closed to passengers in 1912.

Today there remains a signal box, on the line to Wolverhampton, called Abbey Foregate (with the present day code of 'AF'). The box controls the junction there and the access to the yard (which is also called Abbey Foregate Yard). No remains of the platform exist however.

See also

• Shrewsbury Abbey (railway station) - another station, on Abbey Foregate itself

References

• R.V.J.Butt, (1995). The Directory of Railway Stations. Patrick Stephens Ltd.  ISBN 1-85260-508-1

• A. Jowett, (2000). Jowett's Nationalised Railway Atlas. Atlantic Publishing.  ISBN 0-906899-99-0

Preceding station	Disused railways			Following station
Shrewsbury		Great Western Railway Shrewsbury and Birmingham Railway		Upton Magna