Abermule railway station

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Abermule
Location
Location	Wales
Area	Montgomeryshire
Operations
Original company	Oswestry and Newtown Railway Cambrian Railway
Post-grouping	Great Western Railway
Platforms	?
History
14 August 1860	Station opens
14 June 1965	Station closes
Disused railway stations in the United Kingdom
Closed railway stations in Britain A B C D-F G H-J K-L M-O P-R S T-V W-Z
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Abermule railway station served the village of Abermule in Wales. Served by the Oswestry and Newtown railway, it was situated on the English border. Until 1956 it was the junction for the short branch to Kerry, which had a passenger service for a while but was largely built for the local timber traffic.

Contents 1 History 2 Abermule train collision 3 The site today 4 References

[edit] History

Opened by the Oswestry and Newtown Railway then by the Cambrian Railway, it became part of the Great Western Railway during the Grouping of 1923. The line then passed on to the Western Region of British Railways on nationalisation in 1948. The station was then closed by the British Railways Board.

[edit] Abermule train collision

The Abermule train collision was a head-on collision which occurred at the station 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.

[edit] The site today

Trains pass on the Cambrian Line, although there is no station at Abermule now.

[edit] References

• R.V.J.Butt, (1995). The Directory of Railway Stations. Patrick Stephens Ltd.  ISBN 1 85260 508 1

• A. Jowett, (2000). Jowett's Nationalised Railway Atlas. Atlantic Publishing.  ISBN 0 906899 99 0

Preceding station	National Rail			Following station
Montgomery		Arriva Trains Wales Cambrian Line		Newtown
Disused Railways
Junction		Great Western Railway Kerry Branch		Ffronfraith Halt