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Market Drayton railway station served the town of Market Drayton in Shropshire, England, between 1863 and 1963.It was at the junction where three railway lines met: two of them, forming the Great Western Railway route between Wellington and Crewe, were met by a line from Stoke-on-Trent on the North Staffordshire Railway.
7.1 Road. 7.2 Bus. 7.3 ... The farm trail is open to the public during farm shop opening hours, ... Market Drayton had a railway station which opened in 1863 and ...
The line was doubled during 1866–67, to match the Wellington and Drayton Railway which opened in October 1867, thus providing a link for the GWR between the Midlands and the Northwest. The North Staffordshire Railway line from Stoke to Market Drayton opened in January 1870, joining the line at Silverdale Junction, just north of Market Drayton.
The station site at Newcastle-Under-Lyme has been landscaped, and Market Drayton's has been demolished and built on by both a Morrisons store and an industrial complex. In 2009 the platforms at Silverdale were cleared of vegetation and the derelict track from the former station site to the tunnel portal was lifted but the track remains intact ...
Stoke-on-Trent is the hub of North Staffordshire's passenger train service. The station also used to have links to Leek (the Biddulph Valley line via Fenton Manor and Endon), Cheadle, to Market Drayton via Newcastle-under-Lyme and Silverdale (Staffordshire) and was the southern terminus of the Potteries Loop Line. All of these routes closed to ...
The line ran from Drayton Junction (52.7031°N 2.5317°W), on the Shrewsbury and Wellington Joint Line just west of Wellington station, to an end-on junction with the Nantwich and Market Drayton Railway at Market Drayton (52.9093°N 2.4895°W), a distance of some 16 miles. Construction started in 1864, and the line was opened in 1867.
The Market Drayton Electric Light and Power Company Limited was registered on 4 February 1902. [1] Its legal powers were derived from an Electric Lighting Order dated 1903. The company's offices were in Cheshire Street, Market Drayton and the power station was in Great Hales Street, Market Drayton (52°54'10.1"N 2°28'51.6"W).
After the first meeting at Malvern, Worcestershire, all subsequent directors' meetings were held at Paddington station, with directors supplied by the GWR, and the Wellington and Drayton Railway Act 1864 (27 & 28 Vict. c. clxxv) of 14 July 1864 authorised the transfer of the Wellington and Drayton Railway to the Great Western Railway (GWR) on completion of the line.