Wyrley and Cheslyn Hay railway station

Wyrley and Cheslyn Hay railway station

Wyrley and Cheslyn Hay was a railway station which served the villages of Great Wyrley and Cheslyn Hay in Staffordshire, England. It was closed in 1965. Great Wyrley and Cheslyn Hay are now served by Landywood railway station which opened in 1989.

It was situated on the former London and North Western Railway between Walsall and Rugeley Town. The station was immortalised in 1964 in the song "Slow Train" by Flanders and Swann.

External links

* [http://www.disused-stations.org.uk/ Disused stations]


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