Haughton Halt railway station

Haughton Halt was a minor station located north of Shrewsbury on the GWR’s Paddington to Birkenhead main line. It was opened in the nineteen thirties as part of the GWR's halt construction programme, aimed at combatting growing competition from bus services and would primarily have served the adjacent (and now disused) Haughton Airfield. Today the route is part of the Shrewsbury to Chester line. Nothing now remains on the site.

Haughton Halt
Location	Haughton, Shropshire England
Coordinates	52.8327°N 2.9246°W / 52.8327; -2.9246
Grid reference	SJ377265
Platforms	2
Other information
Status	Disused
History
Original company	Great Western Railway
Key dates
22 December 1934	Station opens
12 September 1960	Station closed[1]

Historical services

Express trains did not call at Haughton Halt, only local services. No freight or parcels traffic was handled here.

References

Clinker, C.R., (1978) Clinker’s Register of Closed Stations, Avon Anglia ISBN 0-905466-19-5

Neighbouring stations

Preceding station	Historical railways			Following station
Stanwardine Halt		Great Western Railway Shrewsbury to Chester Line		Rednal and West Felton

External links

Closed railway stations in Shropshire
Bishops Castle Railway	Bishop's Castle Eaton Horderley Lydham Heath Plowden Stretford Bridge Halt
Cleobury Mortimer and Ditton Priors Light Railway	Aston Botterell Siding Burwarton Halt Chilton Halt Cleobury North Crossing Cleobury Town Halt Detton Ford Siding Ditton Priors Halt Prescott Spring Stottesdon Halt
Coalport branch line	Coalport East Dawley and Stirchley Madeley Market Malins Lee Oakengates Market Street
Minsterley branch line	Minsterley Plealey Road Pontesbury
Much Wenlock and Severn Junction Railway	Easthope Halt Farley Halt Harton Road Longville Much Wenlock Presthope Rushbury Westwood Halt
Oswestry, Ellesmere and Whitchurch Railway	Ellesmere Frankton Tinkers Green Halt Welshampton Whittington High Level
Oswestry and Newtown Railway	Llynclys Pant
Severn Valley Railway	Alveley Halt Berrington Buildwas Coalport West Cound Halt Cressage Eardington Halt Ironbridge and Broseley Jackfield Halt Linley Halt
Shrewsbury and Birmingham Railway	Abbey Foregate Admaston Upton Magna Walcot
Shrewsbury and Chester Railway	Baschurch Haughton Halt Leaton Oldwoods Halt Rednal and West Felton Stanwardine Halt Trehowell Halt Weston Rhyn Whittington Low Level
Shrewsbury and Hereford Railway	All Stretton Halt Ashford Bowdler Bromfield Condover Dorrington Leebotwood Little Stretton Halt Marshbrook Onibury Wistanstow Halt Woofferton
Shrewsbury and Welshpool Railway	Hanwood Plas-y-Court Halt Westbury Yockleton
Shropshire and Montgomeryshire Railway	Chapel Lane Cruckton Edgebold Edgerley Halt Ford and Crossgates Hookagate and Redhill Kinnerley Junction Maesbrook Melverley Meole Brace Nesscliffe and Pentre Shoot Hill Shrawardine Shrewsbury West Shrewsbury Abbey Wern Las
Shropshire Union Railways	Donnington Hadley Newport Trench Crossing
Tanat Valley Light Railway	Porthywaen Halt Blodwell Junction Llanyblodwel Halt Glanyrafon Halt
Tenbury and Bewdley Railway	Cleobury Mortimer Neen Sollars Tenbury Wells
Wellington and Drayton Railway	Crudgington Ellerdine Halt Hodnet Little Drayton Halt Longdon Halt Peplow Rowton Halt Tern Hill Wollerton Halt
Wellington and Severn Junction Railway	Coalbrookdale Doseley Halt Green Bank Halt Horsehay and Dawley Iron Bridge Gorge Ketley Ketley Town Halt Lawley Bank Lightmoor Platform New Dale Halt
Wrexham and Ellesmere Railway	Elson Halt Trench Halt
Other	Hadnall Madeley Market Drayton New Hadley Halt Norton-in-Hales Park Hall Halt Rhydmeredydd Goods

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