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The Nantwich and Market Drayton Railway (N&MDR), which ran southwards to Market Drayton from a junction with the London and North Western Railway (LNWR) at Nantwich, was opened on 20 October 1863. [2] [3] [4] The new line was 10 miles 65 chains (17.4 km) long. [5] Four years later, on 16 October 1867, the Wellington and Drayton Railway (W&DR ...
The Nantwich and Market Drayton Railway was a standard gauge railway line which began as a single line branch in the early 1860s and rapidly became part of the Great Western Railway's (GWR) double track Wellington to Nantwich Railway, which had through trains to Crewe. It carried through freight and local passenger traffic until its closure in ...
The line ran from Drayton Junction on the Shrewsbury and Wellington Joint Railway just west of Wellington station, to an end-on junction with the Nantwich and Market Drayton Railway at Market Drayton a distance of some 16 miles. Construction started in 1864, and the line was opened in 1867.
The line ran from Drayton Junction (52.7031°N 2.5317°W), on the Shrewsbury and Wellington Joint Line just west of Wellington station, to an end-on junction with the Nantwich and Market Drayton Railway at Market Drayton (52.9093°N 2.4895°W), a distance of some 16 miles. Construction started in 1864, and the line was opened in 1867.
The station was opened by the Great Western Railway, the station closed on 9 September 1963. [1] ... Nantwich and Market Drayton Railway Audlem Line and station closed:
This was enabled by the Silverdale and Newcastle Railway Act 1859 (22 & 23 Vict. c. cxiv) and passenger services from Stoke to Newcastle began in 1862. Silverdale was reached in May 1863. [1] Meanwhile, the Great Western Railway was planning to reach Manchester and in an effort to block this, the Market Drayton extension was completed in ...
The station also served Woore Racecourse which opened at Pipe Gate in 1885. [4] The section between Silverdale and Pipe Gate was reduced to single track in October 1934. [3] Dwindling passenger numbers after World War II meant that there were only two trains daily from Stoke to Market Drayton, and all passenger services ceased on 7 May 1956. [3]
Audlem railway station was a station on the former Great Western Railway between Market Drayton and Nantwich, opened in 1863. It served the village of Audlem in Cheshire, England until closure in 1963. [1] The station was immortalised in the song "Slow Train" by Flanders and Swann.