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Market Drayton railway station served the town of Market Drayton in Shropshire, England, between 1863 and 1963.It was at the junction where three railway lines met: two of them, forming the Great Western Railway route between Wellington and Crewe, were met by a line from Stoke-on-Trent on the North Staffordshire Railway.
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 ...
Market Drayton had a railway station which opened in 1863 and closed during the Beeching cuts in 1963. The railway station was located on the Wellington and Drayton Railway and Nantwich and Market Drayton Railway of the Great Western Railway network and was also the terminus of the Newcastle-under-Lyme line of the Stoke to Market Drayton Line ...
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 station site at Newcastle-Under-Lyme has been landscaped, and Market Drayton's has been demolished and built on by both a Morrisons store and an industrial complex. In 2009 the platforms at Silverdale were cleared of vegetation and the derelict track from the former station site to the tunnel portal was lifted but the track remains intact ...
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.
York and North Midland Railway: 1965 Market Bosworth: Ashby and Nuneaton Joint Railway: 1931 reopened 2011 Market Drayton: GWR: 1963 Market Place (Chesterfield) Great Central Railway: 1951 Market Place Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway: 1930 Market Weighton: NER: 1965 Markham Village Halt: L&NWR: 1960 Marlborough High Level: GWR: 1933 ...
The station was built in 1849. In 1867, a branch line was opened to connect the town with Market Drayton. The Wellington and Market Drayton Railway operated for almost a hundred years before closure under the Beeching Axe in 1963. The line remained open for goods only services until 1967; the track was lifted in 1970. [17] [18]