Haughton Halt railway station

Haughton Halt
Location
Place	Haughton
Area	Shropshire
Operations
Original company	Great Western Railway
Platforms	2
History
22 Dec 1934	Station opens
12 Sep 1960	Station closed ^[1]
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Haughton Halt was a minor station located north of Shrewsbury on the GWR’s Paddington to Birkenhead main line. It was opened in the nineteen thirties as part of the GWR's halt construction programme, aimed at combatting growing competition from bus services and would primarily have served the adjacent (and now disused) Haughton Airfield. Today the route is part of the Shrewsbury to Chester line. Nothing now remains on the site.

Historical services

Express trains did not call at Haughton Halt, only local services. No freight or parcels traffic was handled here.

References

↑ Clinker, C.R., (1978) Clinker’s Register of Closed Stations, Avon Anglia ISBN 0-905466-19-5

Neighbouring stations

Preceding station	Historical railways			Following station
Stanwardine Halt		Great Western Railway Shrewsbury to Chester Line		Rednal and West Felton

External links

Haughton Halt on navigable 1946 O.S. map

Coordinates: 52°49′58″N 2°55′29″W / 52.8327°N 2.9246°W / 52.8327; -2.9246

Closed railway stations in Shropshire

Severn Valley Railway	Berrington Cound Halt Cressage Buildwas Iron Bridge and Broseley Jackfield Halt Coalport West Linley Halt Eardington Halt Alveley Halt

Coalport Branch Line	Oakengates Market Street Malins Lee Dawley and Stirchley Madeley Market Coalport East

Tenbury and Bewdley Railway	Neen Sollars Cleobury Mortimer

Cleobury Mortimer and Ditton Priors Light Railway	Ditton Priors Halt Cleobury North Crossing Burwarton Halt Aston Botterell Siding Stottesdon Halt Prescott Spring Detton Ford Siding Chilton Halt Cleobury Town Halt

Wellington and Severn Junction Railway	Ketley Ketley Town Halt New Dale Halt Lawley Bank Horsehay and Dawley Doseley Halt Lightmoor Platform Green Bank Halt Iron Bridge Gorge Coalbrookdale

Much Wenlock and Severn Junction Railway	Farley Halt Much Wenlock Westwood Halt Presthope Easthope Halt Longville Rushbury Harton Road

Shropshire Union Railways	Newport (Shropshire) Donnington Trench Crossing Hadley

Shrewsbury and Birmingham Railway	Abbey Foregate Upton Magna Walcot Admaston

Shrewsbury and Hereford Railway	Condover Dorrington Leebotwood All Stretton Halt Little Stretton Halt Marsh Brook Wistanstow Halt Onibury Bromfield Ashford Bowdler Woofferton

Shrewsbury and Chester Railway	Trehowell Halt Weston Rhyn Whittington Low Level Rednal and West Felton Haughton Halt Stanwardine Halt Baschurch Oldwoods Halt Leaton

Wellington and Drayton Railway	Little Drayton Halt Tern Hill Wollerton Halt Hodnet Peplow Ellerdine Halt Rowton Halt Crudgington Longdon Halt

Bishops Castle Railway	Bishop's Castle Lydham Heath Eaton Plowden Horderley Stretford Bridge Halt

Shropshire and Montgomeryshire Railway	Melverley Chapel Lane Maesbrook Wern Las Kinnerley Junction Edgerley Nesscliffe and Pentre Shrawardine Ford and Crossgates Shoot Hill Cruckton Edgebold Hookagate and Redhill Meole Brace Shrewsbury West Shrewsbury Abbey

Minsterley branch line	Plealey Road Pontesbury Minsterley

Shrewsbury and Welshpool Railway	Plas-y-Court Halt Westbury (Salop) Yockleton Hanwood

Oswestry, Ellesmere and Whitchurch Railway	Ellesmere Frankton Whittington High Level Tinkers Green Halt Forest Hall

Oswestry and Newtown Railway	Llynclys Pant (Salop)

Wrexham and Ellesmere Railway	Trench Halt Elson Halt

Other	Hadhall Madeley Market Drayton New Hadley Halt Norton-in-Hales

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