Whitchurch (Shropshire) railway station

Infobox UK station
name=Whitchurch (Shropshire)


caption=Whitchurch railway station in 1980
manager=Arriva Trains Wales
locale=Whitchurch
borough=North Shropshire
lowusage0405=65,867
lowusage0506=75,958
platforms=2
code=WTC

Whitchurch (Shropshire) railway station serves the town of Whitchurch in Shropshire, England. The station is 31 km (19 miles) north of Shrewsbury on the Welsh Marches Line. The station is maintained and all services serving it are provided by Arriva Trains Wales.

The station was once the junction for the Cambrian Railways main line to Oswestry and Welshpool (opened in 1861), but this fell victim to the Beeching Axe in 1965 [http://www.bbc.co.uk/shropshire/history/2003/03/oswestry_railway_01.shtml] . The site of the former junction can still be seen from passing trains.

The station has two platforms and a footbridge that connects the two platforms. Just up from the platform is a large signal box and the one time goods shed has been turned into a garage. There is evidence that at one time there was a station building that has long since been destroyed. The station is unstaffed with a canopy providing shelter that dates back there were four working platforms. One whole side of platform 2 is fenced off from what would be platform 3 and the track has been removed from the track bed.

The last major work carried out on Whitchurch station was the replacement of the original railway bridge that had become damaged by an over-sized lorry load.

ervices

Monday to Saturdays, there is generally a two-hourly service southbound to Shrewsbury and nortbound to Crewe. Sundays an irregular service operates in both directions.

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