Nantwich and Market Drayton Railway

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West Coast Main Line to Preston Crewe Nantwich Market Drayton Junction Welsh Marches line to Shrewsbury Coole Pilate Halt Audlem Coxbank Halt Adderley Stoke to Market Drayton Line to Stoke-on-Trent Silverdale Junction Market Drayton Wellington and Drayton Railway to Wellington

The Nantwich and Market Drayton Railway was a standard gauge railway line which began as a single line branch in the early 1860s and rapidly became part of the Great Western Railway's (GWR) double track Wellington to Nantwich Railway, which had through trains to Crewe. It carried through freight and local passenger traffic until its closure in the 1960s. Market Drayton was renowned for the manufacture of gingerbread, hence the line acquired the nickname the "Gingerbread Line".