Crewe and Shrewsbury Railway

v t e Crewe and Shrewsbury Railway
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LNWR Crewe–Manchester line NSR Crewe–Derby line Crewe LNWR WCML LNWR North Wales Coast Line to Holyhead Gresty Willaston Newcastle Crossing Nantwich GWR Nantwich and Market Drayton Railway to Wellington Wrenbury Whitchurch and Tattenhall Railway to Chester Whitchurch Oswestry, Ellesmere and Whitchurch Railway to Oswestry Prees Heath Army Camp Prees Wem Yorton Hadnall Sentinel Waggon Works GWR Shrewsbury and Chester Railway Shrewsbury River Severn GWR Shrewsbury and Birmingham Railway (Severn Bridge Junction) GWR Cambrian Line to Aberystwyth Joint Shrewsbury and Hereford Railway

The Crewe and Shrewsbury Railway was a railway company which was previously owned by the London and North Western Railway (LNWR), built to connect Crewe with the Shrewsbury and Hereford Railway which was jointly owned with GWR.

Authorised in 1853, planning difficulties accessing the GWR station at Shrewsbury delayed opening until 1858. Proving so successful for both companies to transport coal from the South Wales Valleys to industrial Northwest England, and finished goods in the opposite direction, it was doubled tracked by 1862.

Amalgamated into the London Midland and Scottish Railway in 1923, post nationalisation into British Railways, its services reduced as motor transport proved quicker more cost effective than its various branch lines. It now forms the northern section of Network Rail's Welsh Marches Line.