Place Little Stretton Grid reference SO446919 4 January 1943 Station closed | Area Shropshire 18 April 1935 Station opened Platforms in use 2 | |
Post-grouping Shrewsbury and Hereford Joint Railway Original company Shrewsbury and Hereford Railway Similar Donnington railway station, Leaton railway station, Coalport West railway st, Cressage railway station, Weston Rhyn railway st | ||
Little Stretton Halt was a minor railway station on the Welsh Marches Line between Craven Arms and Church Stretton in Shropshire, England.
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History
Opened by the independent Shrewsbury and Hereford Railway in 1852–53, the line through Little Stretton became the joint property of the Great Western Railway and the London and North Western Railway (LNWR) in 1870; the LNWR interest passed to the London, Midland and Scottish Railway during the Grouping of 1923. Little Stretton Halt was opened on that line on 18 April 1935; it closed temporarily between 4 January 1943 and 6 May 1946. The line then passed on to the London Midland Region of British Railways on nationalisation in 1948. The station was closed by the British Transport Commission on 9 June 1958.
The site today
Trains continue to run on the Welsh Marches Line. Nothing remains of the halt. The nearest station to Little Stretton is now at Church Stretton, a mile to the north.