Oswestry railway station
| Oswestry | |
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| Location | |
| Place | Oswestry |
| Area | Shropshire |
| Grid reference | SJ294298 |
| Operations | |
| Original company | Oswestry and Newtown Railway |
| Pre-grouping | Cambrian Railways |
| Post-grouping |
Great Western Railway Western Region of British Railways |
| Operated by | Cambrian Heritage Railways |
| Platforms | 1 (formerly 6) |
| History | |
| 1 May 1860 | Station opened |
| 7 November 1966 | Closed to passengers |
| 1971 | Closed to freight |
| 17 August 2014 | First steam services restart |
| Stations on heritage railways in the United Kingdom | |
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Oswestry railway station is a heritage railway station in Oswestry, Shropshire, England. It was closed when passenger services were withdrawn in 1966. The station building today is used as commercial premises.
The railway first was first opened by the GWR who opened its single platform station on 1 January 1849 on a branch from Gobowen.
Under the Railway Act 1921, the CR was allocated to the GWR. The GWR immediately closed its competing station on 7 July 1924 and diverted all services to either pass through or terminate at the adjacent former Cambrian Railways station. The main GWR service integrated was the shuttle to Chester via Gobowen on the Shrewsbury & Chester Railway.
The GWR immediately made the CR/LNWR engine shed its divisional base for the new Oswestry locomotive division, allocating it code: OSW. In 1929, the GWR improved the facilities, adding electric lighting to the entire complex, extra inspection pits, and a GWR standard-pattern single-ramp coaling stage. A further improvement programme occurred in 1939, when the wooden roof was replaced with steel trusses, allowing the introduction of improved clearances, increased ventilation and additional glass shuttering.
An administrative oddity occurred throughout the period of control by the GWR, in that a singular ex-LNWR engine was stabled but not allocated to Oswestry shed from 1923, only attached to the shed after 1946 when the UK railway system was nationalised under British Railways.
Proposed to be formed from the amalgamation of a series of local regional railway companies, as a result the new company called Cambrian Railways (CR) proposed to base its headquarters in Oswestry. Using existing Parliamentary Act approval for development of a station, it proposed to build closer to the centre of the town than the existing Great Western Railway (GWR) station, which had opened in 1849. On completion, the CR station would complete the mainline for the London and North Western Railway, from Whitchurch on the Crewe and Shrewsbury Railway, to Welshpool in Mid-Wales.
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