Linley Halt railway station

52°34′54″N 2°26′14″W / 52.5817°N 2.4371°W / 52.5817; -2.4371Grid referenceSO705983Platforms1Other informationStatusDisusedHistoryOriginal companySevern Valley RailwayPre-groupingGreat Western RailwayPost-groupingGreat Western RailwayKey dates1 February 1862 (1862-02-01)Station opened as Linley^[1]1 January 1917Temporarily closed^[1]2 April 1917Reopened^[1]10 September 1951Renamed Linley Halt9 September 1963 (1963-09-09)Closed^[1]

Linley, later Linley Halt, was a small railway station on the Severn Valley line in Shropshire, England.

The station was built as a condition of constructing the railway at the behest of Thomas C. Whitmore of Apley Park estate, through which the railway runs.^[2] Apley Hall lies on the opposite bank of the River Severn to the station. Access from the estate to the station was originally by ferry^[3] and later via a chain suspension bridge.

The single siding accessed by means of a ground frame was taken out of use in December 1957. The siding connected with the running line with a trailing connection in the up direction. The station closed on 9 September 1963 as part of the planned closure of the northern end of the Severn Valley Line which pre-dated the Beeching report.

The little altered station building survives as a private residence although the canopy that provided shelter to passengers on the platform has been removed. The building is to the same design as Hampton Loade, on the preserved Severn Valley Railway.

References

Further reading

• Mitchell, Vic; Smith, Keith (2007). Kidderminster to Shrewsbury. Middleton Press. figs. 80-82. ISBN 9781906008109. OCLC 154801530.

Preceding station		Disused railways		Following station
Coalport Line and station closed		Great Western Railway Severn Valley Railway		Bridgnorth Line closed, station open