Abermule railway station

Abermule
Abermule railway station in 1953
General information
Location	Abermule, Powys Wales
Platforms	3
Other information
Status	Disused
History
Original company	Oswestry and Newtown Railway
Pre-grouping	Cambrian Railways
Post-grouping	Great Western Railway
Key dates
14 August 1860[1]	Opened
14 June 1965[1]	Closed

Abermule railway station served the village of

History

Opened by the Oswestry and Newtown Railway in 1860 (as a temporary rail head - the line to Welshpool not being ready until the following year) and then run by the Cambrian Railways, it became part of the Great Western Railway during the Grouping of 1923.^[2] The Kerry branch line was opened in July 1863, with Abermule acting as the terminus for the passenger service. This was infrequent under Cambrian management (as few as one a day each way), though the GWR tried to improve loadings by opening two intermediate halts and increasing the service frequency after the grouping. By the late 1920s though, the timetable had shrunk back to just two return trips each weekday and these finally ended in February 1931.

The line then passed on to the

The Abermule train collision was a head-on collision which occurred between Abermule and Newtown on 26 January 1921, killing 17 people. The crash arose from misunderstandings between staff which effectively over-rode the safe operation of the Electric Train Tablet protecting the single line. A train departed carrying the wrong tablet for the section it was entering and collided with a train coming the other way.

The site today

Trains pass through the site on the

Sources

• OL 11956311M
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• Jowett, A. (2000). Jowett's Nationalised Railway Atlas. Atlantic Publishing.
  ISBN 0-906899-99-0
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• Mitchell, Vic; Smith, Keith (2008). Shrewsbury to Newtown. Middleton Press. figs. 89-99.
  OCLC 228374968
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• Abermule station on navigable O. S. map

52°32′32″N 3°14′13″W / 52.54221°N 3.23708°W / 52.54221; -3.23708