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four+ashes+railway+station Latitude and Longitude:

52°40′22″N 2°07′29″W / 52.672879°N 2.124706°W / 52.672879; -2.124706
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Four Ashes
Site of Four Ashes station
General information
Location Four Ashes, South Staffordshire
England
Coordinates 52°40′22″N 2°07′29″W / 52.672879°N 2.124706°W / 52.672879; -2.124706
Grid reference SJ916084
Platforms2
Other information
StatusDisused
History
Original company Grand Junction Railway
Pre-grouping London and North Western Railway
Post-grouping London, Midland and Scottish Railway
Key dates
1837Opened
1959Closed to passenger traffic

Four Ashes railway station was a railway station built by the Grand Junction Railway in 1837. [1]: 28  It served the small village of Four Ashes, Staffordshire, 6 miles north of Wolverhampton City Centre, and was located near to the A449 road, on Station Drive. It was also the closest station to the villages of Coven and Featherstone as well as the town of Brewood.

The station closed in 1959, although the Rugby-Birmingham-Stafford Line loop from the West Coast Main Line still runs through the site of the station today.


Preceding station   Disused railways   Following station
Bushbury   London and North Western Railway
former Grand Junction Railway
  Gailey

References

  1. ^ Drake, James (1838). Drake’s Road Book of the Grand Junction Railway (1838). Moorland Reprints. ISBN  0903485257.



four+ashes+railway+station Latitude and Longitude:

52°40′22″N 2°07′29″W / 52.672879°N 2.124706°W / 52.672879; -2.124706
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Four Ashes
Site of Four Ashes station
General information
Location Four Ashes, South Staffordshire
England
Coordinates 52°40′22″N 2°07′29″W / 52.672879°N 2.124706°W / 52.672879; -2.124706
Grid reference SJ916084
Platforms2
Other information
StatusDisused
History
Original company Grand Junction Railway
Pre-grouping London and North Western Railway
Post-grouping London, Midland and Scottish Railway
Key dates
1837Opened
1959Closed to passenger traffic

Four Ashes railway station was a railway station built by the Grand Junction Railway in 1837. [1]: 28  It served the small village of Four Ashes, Staffordshire, 6 miles north of Wolverhampton City Centre, and was located near to the A449 road, on Station Drive. It was also the closest station to the villages of Coven and Featherstone as well as the town of Brewood.

The station closed in 1959, although the Rugby-Birmingham-Stafford Line loop from the West Coast Main Line still runs through the site of the station today.


Preceding station   Disused railways   Following station
Bushbury   London and North Western Railway
former Grand Junction Railway
  Gailey

References

  1. ^ Drake, James (1838). Drake’s Road Book of the Grand Junction Railway (1838). Moorland Reprints. ISBN  0903485257.



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