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    The Coalport branch line was a standard gauge London and North Western Railway branch line in Shropshire, England, which ran between Hadley Junction near...
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    Coalport is a village in Shropshire, England. It is located on the River Severn in the Ironbridge Gorge, a mile downstream of Ironbridge. It lies predominantly...
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  • Coalport or Coal Port, can refer to: Coalport, a village in Shropshire, England. Coalport Branch Line, a railway branch line in Shropshire, England. Coalport...
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    the terminus of the Coalport Branch Line which ran from Hadley Junction near Oakengates on the LNWR Stafford to Shrewsbury Line. The station was originally...
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    Coalport is a borough in Clearfield County, Pennsylvania, United States. The population was 425 at the 2020 census. Coalport is located in southern Clearfield...
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    Hay Inclined Plane (category Coalport)
    1861 they opened the Coalport branch line from Wellington to Coalport which passed underneath the Hay inclined plane near Coalport. The last recorded use...
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    line is the railway line from Wolverhampton to Shrewsbury via Wellington; it was originally built by the Shrewsbury and Birmingham Railway. The line is...
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    Rail station to the town is Telford Central. It was also served the Coalport Branch Line from 1860 until 1952. The station remains intact and the former trackbed...
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    railway line runs through the town and there is a station and a tunnel (Oakengates Tunnel). Oakengates was also served by the Coalport Branch Line and had...
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    village of Stirchley. It opened in 1860 on the Coalport branch line but closed in 1952 along with the line. The trackbed including the platform now form...
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  • the Coalport Branch. Oakwood Press. ISBN 0-85361-613-2. Mitchell, Vic; Smith, Keith (2014). Stafford to Wellington: Including the Coalport Branch. Middleton...
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  • in Great Britain Beeching cuts Morrison, Brian (ed.). "The Meldon Quarry Branch". Modern Railways Pictorial, 1986. Ian Allan. p. 16. ISBN 0-7110-1510-4...
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    by the London and North Western Railway in 1861 on the company's Coalport Branch Line to serve the town of Madeley, Shropshire. It closed to passengers...
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    The GWR Coalport railway station, active 1862–1963, was originally built as a single through platform railway station on the Severn Valley Line serving...
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    Town Lee Dingle Bridge Coalport China Museum Coalport Bridge Wikimedia Commons has media related to Silkin Way. Coalport Branch Line Ironbridge Gorge Museum...
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    Coalport Bridge is a cast iron arch bridge between Coalport and Preens Eddy in Shropshire, England. Architect and bridge-builder William Hayward (1740–1782)...
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  • Thumbnail for Newport railway station (Shropshire)
    situated on the Stafford to Shrewsbury Line via Wellington. In 1847 the London and North Western Railway leased the line between Stafford and Wellington from...
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    works was connected by rail to the Stafford line via the Coalport Branch Line, originally via a Wombridge Branch from the sidings at Trench, but in the 1870s...
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    Randlay Pool, on about 300 yd (270 m) of the trackbed of the former Coalport Branch Line, on the Telford Town Tramway which was opened by the Reverend W....
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    plane, and build a railway line along its course. The closure was delayed until 1 June 1858, and the railway branch to Coalport opened in mid-1861. The LNWR...
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    when the Tenbury Railway (operated by the S&HR) opened a five-mile branch line. to Tenbury, operated by the GWR. Then on 13th August 1864, the Great...
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    Stations. Retrieved 12 March 2017. Mitchell, Vic; Smith, Keith (2009). Branch Lines around Oswestry. Middleton Press. figs. 75-79. ISBN 9781906008604...
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    Great Western Railway route between Wellington and Crewe, were met by a line from Stoke-on-Trent on the North Staffordshire Railway. The Nantwich and...
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    Ironbridge and Broseley railway station was a stop on the Severn Valley Railway Line; it served the town of Broseley and village of Ironbridge in Shropshire,...
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    to the east side of a gated level crossing and on the south side of the line opposite the crossing keeper's cottage. It was made of timber and had a waiting...
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    Platform. Additionally, the former Coalport branch line ran to the east of the village. The nearest station on that line was Dawley and Stirchley. It became...
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    Stafford to Shrewsbury Line and was the start of the branch to Coalport. The station was opened in 1849 and closed in 1964. The line through Hadley was closed...
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  • Cound Halt was an unstaffed railway station on the Severn Valley line in Shropshire, England. It opened on 4 August 1934 and although thought by some people...
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    Railway and opened in 1852, the station closed in 1958 but its line, the Welsh Marches Line, is still operational. The station building is now a cattery...
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  • Line between Shrewsbury and Church Stretton in the English county of Shropshire. Opened by the independent Shrewsbury and Hereford Railway, the line through...
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