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Section from the Leominster railway station of the Shrewsbury and Hereford Railway to Pembridge, opened for goods traffic on 18 October 1855, at a cost of £7,000 per mile. But, with additional costs, the company was struggling, and in April 1856 Brassey and Field, who held £20,000 or one quarter of the company's stock, advanced the company £ ...
Leominster railway station lies on the Welsh Marches Line, serving the town of Leominster in Herefordshire, England. It is situated 11 + 1 ⁄ 4 miles (18.1 km) north of Hereford . The station has two operational platforms, for northbound services via Ludlow and southbound via Hereford ; in the past, it had three more for discontinued services ...
Hereford railway station serves the city of Hereford, in Herefordshire, England. Managed by Transport for Wales , it lies on the Welsh Marches Line between Leominster and Abergavenny , is the western terminus of the Cotswold Line and also has an hourly West Midlands Trains service from Birmingham New Street .
Shobdon Airfield Shobdon Airfield from the East. Taken from a glider. Shobdon Airfield has a Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) Ordinary Licence (Number P779) that allows flights for the public transport of passengers or for flying instruction as authorised by the licensee (Herefordshire Aero Club Limited). [5]
The Kington and Eardisley Railway took over the Kington Tramway, which served the Welsh Marches border town of Kington, Herefordshire.In 1874 it opened a 6 miles 72 chains (11.1 km) line south from Titley Junction to a junction with the Hereford, Hay and Brecon Railway, 5 chains (330 ft; 100 m) east of Eardisley.
A joint opening with the Shrewsbury and Hereford Railway took place on 6 December 1853. The company was taken over by the West Midland Railway in 1860, which became part of the Great Western Railway in 1863. The main Hereford station and headquarters of the Newport to Hereford line was Hereford Barton railway station to the west of the city ...
The Worcester, Bromyard and Leominster Railway Act 1861 (24 & 25 Vict. c. ccxiii) authorising the proposed line received royal assent on 1 August 1861, authorising a single track 24.5-mile (39.4 km) railway line from a point near Bransford Road on the West Midland Railway, through Bromyard to the Shrewsbury and Hereford Railway at Leominster.
The line that exists today is the amalgamation of two lines, both with influence from the LNWR.The southern section from Newport to Hereford is formed from the Newport, Abergavenny and Hereford Railway, while the northern section from Hereford to Shrewsbury is formed from the joint GWR/LNWR Shrewsbury and Hereford Railway. [1]