Abermule railway station

Infobox UK disused station
name = Abermule


caption =
locale = Wales
borough = Montgomeryshire
line = Oswestry and Newtown Railway
Cambrian Railway
owner = Great Western Railway
platforms = ?
latitude =
longitude =
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years = 14 August 1860
events = Station opens
years1 = 14 June 1965
events1 = Station closes

Abermule railway station served the village of Abermule in Wales. Served by the Oswestry and Newtown railway, it was situated on the English border. Until 1956 it was the junction for the short branch to Kerry, which had a passenger service for a while but was largely built for the local timber traffic.

History

Opened by the Oswestry and Newtown Railway then by the Cambrian Railway, it became part of the Great Western Railway during the Grouping of 1923. The line then passed on to the Western Region of British Railways on nationalisation in 1948. The station was then closed by the British Railways Board.

Abermule train collision

The Abermule train collision was a head-on collision which occurred at the station on 26 January 1921, killing 17 people. The crash arose from misunderstandings between staff which effectively over-rode the safe operation of the Electric Train Tablet protecting the single line. A train departed carrying the wrong tablet for the section it was entering and collided with a train coming the other way.

The site today

Trains pass on the Cambrian Line, although there is no station at Abermule now.

References

*cite book|author=R.V.J.Butt, |title= The Directory of Railway Stations |publisher=Patrick Stephens Ltd
year=1995 ISBN 1 85260 508 1

*cite book|author=A. Jowett, |title= Jowett's Nationalised Railway Atlas |publisher=Atlantic Publishing |year=2000 ISBN 0 906899 99 0