Place Woofferton Grid reference SO514683 Platforms in use 3 | Area Shropshire 6 December 1853 (1853-12-06) Station opened | |
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Pre-grouping Shrewsbury and Hereford Railway Post-grouping Shrewsbury and Hereford Railway Original company Shrewsbury and Hereford Railway Similar Coalport West railway st, Donnington railway station, Weston Rhyn railway st, Berrington railway station, Buildwas railway station | ||
Woofferton railway station was a station and railway junction near Woofferton, Shropshire, England, where the Tenbury Railway joined the Shrewsbury and Hereford Railway (S&HR).
The station opened on 6 December 1853 as part of the southern extension of the S&HR from Ludlow to Hereford. It became a junction station in August 1861 when the Tenbury Railway (operated by the S&HR) opened a 5 mile branch line. In August 1864 the GWR-operated Tenbury and Bewdley Railway opened, completing the 'Wyre Forest Line' to Bewdley.
The station closed on 31 July 1961, the same date as the closure of the former Tenbury Railway. The line through the station, the Welsh Marches Line, remains in use.
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