Alveley Halt railway station

Alveley Halt was a halt on the original Severn Valley Line, situated between the villages of Highley and Alveley, in the English county of Shropshire. The station, not used by the reopened heritage Severn Valley Railway, has been replaced by the adjacent Country Park Halt half a kilometre up the line.

Alveley Halt
LocationHighley, Shropshire
England
Coordinates52.4524°N 2.3734°W / 52.4524; -2.3734
Grid referenceSO746839
Platforms1
Other information
StatusDisused
History
Original companyGreat Western Railway
Post-groupingGreat Western Railway
Key dates
1944Station opens as Alveley Colliery Sidings
Unknown DateStation renamed Alveley Colliery Halt
by June 1954Station renamed Alveley Halt
9 September 1963Station closes

History

Alveley Colliery opened in 1938 [1] and the halt was opened in about 1944 only for the use of colliery workers.[2]

Ownership of the halt passed from the Great Western Railway to the Western Region of British Railways during the nationalisation of 1948. The Severn Valley Railway between Shrewsbury and Bewdley was closed to passenger and through goods traffic by the British Transport Commission in 1963. However the line from Alveley Colliery southwards, which included the halt, remained open for coal traffic until the Colliery closed in January 1969.[3]

The site today

In summer 1973, during preparations for the 1974 re-opening of the line between Hampton Loade and Bewdley by the heritage Severn Valley Railway, the platform face was found to be collapsing towards the line, so the halt was demolished.[4] The location of the halt can just be made out as a grass covered piece of raised rough ground immediately adjacent to a level crossing, on the western side of the line. A piece of GWR bridge rail, presumably originally a post for a sign, still stands vertically here. The heritage trains of the Severn Valley Railway pass the site near Country Park Halt between the stations at Highley and Hampton Loade.

Preceding station   Heritage railways Following station
Hampton Loade   Severn Valley Railway
Station replaced by
Country Park Halt
  Highley

References

  1. Shropshire History, ‘’Alveley Colliery’’ (Retrieved 4 June 2016)
  2. Mitchell, Vic; Smith, Keith (2007). Country Railway Routes, Kidderminster to Shrewsbury. Midhurst: Middleton Press. ISBN 978-1-906008-10-9.
  3. Marshall, John (1989). The Severn Valley Railway. Newton Abbot: David St John Thomas. ISBN 0-946537-45-3.
  4. SVR News Issue 29


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