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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 linking the titular towns opened five years later, making the station a junction in the process – known locally as the "Gingerbread Line" (Market Drayton being renowned for the production of said confectionery), it was later extended to Wellington and officially became part of the Great Western 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 ...
Wellington railway station serves the town of Wellington, Shropshire, England. It is situated on the former Great Western Railway 's London Paddington to Birkenhead via Birmingham Snow Hill line. Trains are operated by West Midlands Railway (who manage the station), and Transport for Wales .
The Wellington and Drayton Railway was incorporated on 7 August 1862, and in November of that year deposited plans for a line connecting Wellington to Market Drayton, together with extensions northwards towards Manchester, to join the LNWR near Minshull Vernon, the Cheshire Midland Railway near Knutsford, the Manchester South Junction and Altrincham Railway and the Manchester and Bolton ...
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.
Morrey owned a hardware business in Market Drayton. Thomas Povey, the colonial civil servant and friend of Samuel Pepys, was a Londoner, but a branch of his family lived at Woodseaves, near Market Drayton; the most prominent member of this branch of the family was Sir John Povey (1621–1679), Lord Chief Justice of Ireland 1673–79.
The Stoke to Market Drayton Line was opened by the North Staffordshire Railway (NSR) in 1870. [3] The station, then called Keele Road , was opened on the same day as the line opened. [ 1 ] In 1898 the station was renamed Keele .