Buildwas Junction railway station
- Buildwas Junction railway station
Buildwas Junction railway station was an important bustling junction station after the opening of the Severn Valley line in the mid 1800s. The station had platforms at two different levels and, at its peak, had a total of eleven staff, including the station master. Up to 1923 the area was controlled by two signal boxes, the Station signal box controlling the station area and the Junction signal box controlling the junction between the Severn Valley line and the double track line across the Albert Edward Bridge towards Lightmoor Junction. These were replaced with a single signal box approximately midway between its predecessors in 1923. This box was subsequently enlarged to accommodate a frame containing 113 levers on 9 December 1931. The track layout was altered several time during its existence including the additional CEGB sidings opened in 1932. Although thought by some people to have been closed as part of the Beeching axe in 1963 its planned closure pre-dated his report. The station was demolished to make way for Ironbridge B Power Station. Coal is now offloaded from EWS locomotive hauled trains for the power station on the site of this station.
The Telford Steam Railway has aspirations to operate to this site when the expected closure of the power station takes place by its present operator E.ON, running over the Albert Edward Bridge to a new terminus on or close to the site of Buildwas Junction.
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