Disused railway lines and closed stations in Shropshire

186 miles of disused railway
128 closed stations
19 stations open today
37 named lost lines

Shropshire has 186 miles of disused railway and 128 closed stations, against 19 stations still open today. More stations have closed here than remain: 6.7 lost for every one still served. The longest lost line is the Severn Valley Railway, with 20 miles of its route inside Shropshire.

See Shropshire’s lost railways on the map

The map opens on the county with the disused lines and closed stations drawn over today’s network. Tap any closed station for its history, or any grey line for its name.

What is left of it

The 186 miles of lost railway in Shropshire break down as 149 miles with the track lifted and the trackbed still traceable, 22 miles built over or ploughed out, with little or no trace left and 15 miles with track still in place but no trains. These are OpenStreetMap’s own distinctions, made by the people who surveyed each stretch, so a line can appear under more than one state along its length.

Lost railway lines in Shropshire

37 named lines with disused track in the county, longest stretch first. The mileage is the part inside Shropshire; a line crossing the border is counted on both sides.

Line	Miles in county
Severn Valley Railway	20
Wellington to Craven Arms Railway	19
Wellington and Drayton Railway	15
Shropshire and Montgomeryshire Light Railway	13
Cleobury Mortimer and Ditton Priors Branch	9.7
Gobowen and Nantmawr Quarry Branch	7.6
Bishops Castle Railway	7.5
Whitchurch & Aberystwyth	7.4
Ludlow and Clee Hill Railway	6.5
Stafford to Shrewsbury Line	6.3
Stoke to Market Drayton Line	6.0
Tanat Valley Railway	5.4
Minsterley Branch	4.6
Nantwich and Market Drayton Railway	4.3
Madeley Junction to Ironbridge Line	4.2
Snailsbeach District Railway	3.7
Wrexham and Ellesmere Railway	2.8
Tenbury & Bewdley Railway	2.5
Criggion Branch	2.4
Tenbury Branch	2.4
Woofferton and Tenbury Wells Branch	2.4
Cleobury Mortimer & Ditton Priors Light Railway	2.2
Whitchurch and Tattenhall Branch	2.1
Course of Former Oswestry - Whitchurch railway	1.6
Gobowen to Oswestry Community Rail Project	1.6
Kinlet & Billingsey Sidings	1.5
Wellington and Severn Junction Railway	1.4
Severn Junction	1.2
Shropshire & Montgomeryshire Light Railway	1.2
Titterstone Incline	1.1
Porthywaen Branch	0.8
Baschurch Sidings	0.6
Potteries Loop	0.6
Rock Siding	0.4
The Iron Bridge Way	0.4
Bridgnorth Tunnel	0.3
Ellesmere Loop Line	0.3

Closed railway stations in Shropshire

All 128 closed and former stations in Shropshire, A to Z. Each name opens the map on the station; the Wikipedia link, where there is one, has its history.

Stations still open in Shropshire

19 stations in Shropshire still have a train service. The busiest are Shrewsbury (2.3 million a year), Telford Central (1.2 million a year), Wellington (676,396 a year), Ludlow (271,100 a year) and Gobowen (247,608 a year). Every one has its own page, with the stations you can reach from it directly and how often the trains run: see the A to Z of stations.

Lost railways nearby

Wrexham, Staffordshire, Powys, Herefordshire, Worcestershire, Cheshire and Denbighshire.

About these figures

The disused lines are the stretches OpenStreetMap records as disused, abandoned, razed or dismantled railway, measured segment by segment and given to the county each segment lies in. The closed stations are Wikidata’s record of British railway stations no longer in service, kept where they are not within a few hundred metres of a station still open. County boundaries are today’s ceremonial counties, with unitary authorities folded into the county they sit in, from the Office for National Statistics (Open Government Licence v3.0; contains OS data © Crown copyright and database right 2024). Historic county lines were different, and a closed station a mile over the border is on the neighbouring page.

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