Coalport Branch Line

Coalport Branch Line
Legend Stafford to Shrewsbury Line Hadley Wombridge (goods) Oakengates Market Street Wolverhampton to Shrewsbury Line Malinslee Wolverhampton to Shrewsbury Line Dawley and Stirchley Madeley Market Legge's Sidings Coalport East

The Coalport Branch Line was a standard gauge London and North Western Railway branch line in Shropshire from the Stafford to Shrewsbury Line to Coalport, via Oakengates. It closed to passengers in 1952 and regular freight on 5 December 1960; it finally closed to even sporadic traffic on 6 July 1964. On 9 April 1980 the 2 ft (610 mm) gauge Telford Town Tramway was opened by the Reverend W. Awdry on the trackbed of the Coalport branch alongside Randlay Pool in Telford Town Park. The tramway only lasted a few years before it closed in the mid-1980s. The tram has since been preserved by the Telford Steam Railway running on its own circular track by Horsehay Pool.

External links

• [1] and [2] Geograph 1963 photos of Coalport East
• Geograph 1964 photo
• Geograph photo of Madeley Market Station
• Madeley local history with photo
• LNWR Society history