https://shrewsburyrailwayheritage.com/committee/2025-10-25T16:15:23+00:00weekly0.6https://shrewsburyrailwayheritage.com/2010/03/06/home/https://shrewsburyrailwayheritage.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/03/poster-srht-cycle-event.jpgPOSTER - SRHT CYCLE EVENThttps://shrewsburyrailwayheritage.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/03/scan-1.jpgScanhttps://shrewsburyrailwayheritage.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/03/srht-calendar-2020.jpgSRHT Calendar 2020https://shrewsburyrailwayheritage.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/03/information-leaflet.jpgInformation Leaflethttps://shrewsburyrailwayheritage.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/03/steam-rally.jpgsteam rallyhttps://shrewsburyrailwayheritage.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/03/edwards-engine-low-resimg_3530.jpgEDWARDS-ENGINE-LOW-RESIMG_3530https://shrewsburyrailwayheritage.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/03/steve-lllewellyns-gray-firgie-at-work-1.jpgSteve Lllewellyn,s Gray Firgie at work (1)https://shrewsburyrailwayheritage.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/03/image04.jpgimage0https://shrewsburyrailwayheritage.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/03/image0-0011.jpgimage0-001https://shrewsburyrailwayheritage.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/03/image03.jpgimage02025-10-25T16:13:48+00:00monthlyhttps://shrewsburyrailwayheritage.com/abbey-station/https://shrewsburyrailwayheritage.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/11/token-007_edited-1.jpgA4 Pacific 60009A4 pacific 60009 "Union of South Africa" after arrival with the Steam Dreams Special on Friday 10th May 2013.https://shrewsburyrailwayheritage.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/11/inside-abbey1.jpgInside Abbeyhttps://shrewsburyrailwayheritage.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/11/24-11.jpg24.11Looking towards the ticket window.https://shrewsburyrailwayheritage.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/11/typewriters.jpgThe two vintage typewriters which were donated to the Trust which were used in the BR Civil Engineers Office at Shrewsbury.https://shrewsburyrailwayheritage.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/11/inside-abbey.jpgVisitors on the Sunday to the Centre view the displays.https://shrewsburyrailwayheritage.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/11/mansel-outside5.jpgmansel-outside5Our Chairman Mansel Williams mans the Sales stand.https://shrewsburyrailwayheritage.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/11/the-map10.jpgThe MapLocal people work out where their local halt would have been when the Potts was open!https://shrewsburyrailwayheritage.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/11/the-map9.jpgThe Maphttps://shrewsburyrailwayheritage.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/11/the-map8.jpgThe Maphttps://shrewsburyrailwayheritage.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/11/the-map7.jpgThe Map2024-10-07T09:52:22+00:00weekly0.6https://shrewsburyrailwayheritage.com/shrewsburys-past-railway-scene/https://shrewsburyrailwayheritage.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/montague.jpgMontague BridgeA GWR "Hall" 4-6-0 soon after passing Sutton Bridge Junction makes a start at the climb with a North to West express, Shelf Sidings are on the right.https://shrewsburyrailwayheritage.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/scot.jpgScot 1931An LMS Royal Scot 4-6-0 negotiates Crewe Junction.https://shrewsburyrailwayheritage.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/c1.jpgCastleSomeone poses alongside a GW Castle at the stations southerly approaches.https://shrewsburyrailwayheritage.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/2-6-4-t1.jpgLMS 2-6-4TAn LMS 2-6-4T carries out a shunting manouvre at the south end of station avoiding line. The LNWR signals lasted until the late 1970s.https://shrewsburyrailwayheritage.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/2-6-4-t.jpgLMS 2-6-4TAn LMS 2-6-$T carries out a shunting manouvre at the south end of station avoiding line. The LNWR signals were only removed about 1980.https://shrewsburyrailwayheritage.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/bulldog.jpgBulldogAn unidentified GW Bulldog 4-4-0 passes under the signal gantry at Abbey Foregate, whilst some railway official is probably coming from the signal box.https://shrewsburyrailwayheritage.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/1960-small.jpg1960 small5029 Nunney Castle on Shrewsbury shed in 1960. (R.Amies).2024-09-26T10:35:31+00:00weekly0.6https://shrewsburyrailwayheritage.com/contact/2024-09-17T16:58:50+00:00weekly0.6https://shrewsburyrailwayheritage.com/membership/2024-08-27T10:15:08+00:00weekly0.6https://shrewsburyrailwayheritage.com/history/https://shrewsburyrailwayheritage.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/11/image01.jpgimage01Simple representation of railways serving Shrewsbury in its heyday https://shrewsburyrailwayheritage.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/11/image0.jpgDiagrammatic representation of Railways from Shrewsbury at its Heydayhttps://shrewsburyrailwayheritage.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/11/image5-1.jpgimage5-1WD austerity 0-6-0 No 125 at Abbey Station March 1960https://shrewsburyrailwayheritage.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/11/image5-e1267802006207.jpgimage52024-08-24T12:07:25+00:00weekly0.6https://shrewsburyrailwayheritage.com/members/2024-08-24T11:28:56+00:00weekly0.6https://shrewsburyrailwayheritage.com/abbey-lines-the-trust-newsletter/https://shrewsburyrailwayheritage.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/scan-0011.jpgScan-001https://shrewsburyrailwayheritage.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/scan1.jpgScanhttps://shrewsburyrailwayheritage.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/scan-005.jpgScan-005https://shrewsburyrailwayheritage.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/scan-004.jpgScan-004https://shrewsburyrailwayheritage.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/scan-003.jpgScan-003https://shrewsburyrailwayheritage.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/scan-002.jpgScan-002https://shrewsburyrailwayheritage.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/scan-001.jpgScan-001https://shrewsburyrailwayheritage.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/scan.jpgFront Page of Spring 2014 Newsletter2024-08-24T11:26:55+00:00weekly0.6https://shrewsburyrailwayheritage.com/history/walk-along-the-old-sm/https://shrewsburyrailwayheritage.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/03/image0-2.jpgimage0-2Map of walk with reference points2015-08-21T15:27:44+00:00weekly0.6https://shrewsburyrailwayheritage.com/preserved-steam-on-the-main-line/https://shrewsburyrailwayheritage.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/token-005_edited-1.jpg60009 10 May 2013A4 60009s arrival at Shrewsbury , 10th may 2013.https://shrewsburyrailwayheritage.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/bradley.jpgBradley ManorPreserved GW 7802 "Bradley Manor" after its return to the Cambrian in 2008. It ended its BR working life at Shrewsbury in 1965, went to Barry Scrapyard and then restored by the Erlestoke Manor Fund on the Severn Valley Railway. (D.Giddins).https://shrewsburyrailwayheritage.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/last-761.jpg76079BR Standard 2-6-0 76079 being towed through the station after its last steam working on the Cambrian in 2009. It has being given the Danny Rowlands touch of Aberystwyth shed in the 1960s, with white buffers etc. Some of this class finished their working lives at Shrewsbury sheds in 1966. (D.Giddins).https://shrewsburyrailwayheritage.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/7-4-2012_00111.jpgLNWR 3020 "Cornwall"Preserved LNWR 2-2-2 3020 "Cornwall" being towed from Crewe Works to the Severn Valley Railway in 1979 for possible investigation as to whether it could be restored to working order. This unfortuneately was not to be. Note the LNW starter signals for the station avoiding lines, these were removed soon after this image was taken. (D.Giddins).https://shrewsburyrailwayheritage.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/7-4-2012_016.jpg4930 "Hagley Hall"GW 4-6-0 4930 "Hagley Hall" from the SVR runs around the loop, seen here from Railway Lane, prior to working a Welsh Marches Express in 1981. (D.Giddins).https://shrewsburyrailwayheritage.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/6-27-2012_003.jpg4079 "Pendennis Castle"GW Castle 4-6-0 4079 "Pendennis Castle" runs around the Abbey Foregate triangle prior to returning its train to Newport in May 1974. It was soon to depart for Australia, but was fortuneately returned to the UK in recent years. The house on the right was the photographers childhood home, where he would watch steam departures in late 1950s and early 1960s. (D.Giddins).https://shrewsburyrailwayheritage.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/6-27-2012_002.jpg600 "Gordon" and 3205Preserved WD 2-10-0 600 "Gordon" and GW Collett 0-6-0 3205 returning to their home on the Severn Valley Railway from the Rocket 150 Cavalcade at Rainhill in May 1985. Hauled by a BR Class 25 deisel due to high fire risk. Shrewsbury fireman Chris Kilby was on 3205. (D.Giddins)https://shrewsburyrailwayheritage.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/img_065311.jpg710000 "Duke of GloucesterBR Class 8P Pacific 71000 "Duke of Gloucesrer" passes Abbey Foregate Signal Box on a return steam excursion to Euston in 2008. (D. Giddins).https://shrewsburyrailwayheritage.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/7-27-2012_0023.jpgBlack 5 45407Black 5 45407 after bringing in a charter train off the Cambrian in 2004. (D. Giddins).https://shrewsburyrailwayheritage.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/6201-a.jpgWest Coast driver Ray Poole awaits right away for 6201 "Princess Elizabeth" on a charter returning to Crewe. (Dave Giddins)2015-08-04T14:23:15+00:00weekly0.6https://shrewsburyrailwayheritage.com/abbey-station-and-its-environs-in-regular-use/https://shrewsburyrailwayheritage.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/severn_valley_line_bridge.jpgSevern_Valley_line_bridgeThe bridge that took the Potts over the Severn Valley line, looking east.https://shrewsburyrailwayheritage.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/platform-at-abbey.jpgplatform at Abbeyhttps://shrewsburyrailwayheritage.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/abbey_terminus_006.jpgEsso Oil tanks.The Abbey Yard was used in its later years as an Oil Dispatch yard, from 1960 after the WD closed it, BR(WR) put a spur onto the Severn Valley line at Burnt Mill so that oil tankers can be unloaded into road tankers on the site, this survived untill 1988 when the track was in too bad a state to continue.https://shrewsburyrailwayheritage.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/abbey_terminus_005.jpgAbbey_terminus_005https://shrewsburyrailwayheritage.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/abbey_terminus_003.jpgAbbey_terminus_003General View of the Yard.https://shrewsburyrailwayheritage.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/abbey_terminus_002.jpgAbbey_terminus_002The ramshackle station building from the Colonel stephens Era, showing the ramp up to the platform.https://shrewsburyrailwayheritage.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/abbey_terminus_001.jpgAbbey_terminus_001Around 1950 period, the water column was removed to the preserved Kent & East Sussex Railway in the late 1960s. The derelict wagons on the right were used for storage by the WD.https://shrewsburyrailwayheritage.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/abbey-station-sept-1950.jpgAbbey Station Sept 1950Abbey Station in 1950, whilst still under WD Control.2013-01-10T22:40:35+00:00weekly0.6https://shrewsburyrailwayheritage.com/gallery/https://shrewsburyrailwayheritage.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/11/inside3.jpginsidehttps://shrewsburyrailwayheritage.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/11/inside2.jpginsidehttps://shrewsburyrailwayheritage.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/11/the-map3.jpgThe MapThe map of the Potts line created a lot of interest with local people trying to find where their local halt would have been!https://shrewsburyrailwayheritage.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/11/inside1.jpgVisitors inside the Centre viewing some of the displays. The interior still has to have some decoration and minor work completed before full opening.https://shrewsburyrailwayheritage.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/11/inside.jpginsidehttps://shrewsburyrailwayheritage.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/11/the-map2.jpgThe Map of the Potts line produced a lot of interest by visitors finding out what their local halt would have been!https://shrewsburyrailwayheritage.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/11/the-map1.jpgThe Maphttps://shrewsburyrailwayheritage.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/11/mansel-outside2.jpgMansel outside looking after the Sales table and doing his usual PR work!https://shrewsburyrailwayheritage.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/11/the-map.jpgThe Maphttps://shrewsburyrailwayheritage.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/11/mansel-outside1.jpgOur Chairman Mansel williams outside looking after the sales2012-09-11T16:10:58+00:00weekly0.6https://shrewsburyrailwayheritage.com/history/shropshire-and-montgomeryshire-railway/https://shrewsburyrailwayheritage.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/03/img005.jpgimg005Abbey Foregate Station Buildinghttps://shrewsburyrailwayheritage.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/03/image0-15.jpgimage0-1https://shrewsburyrailwayheritage.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/03/image0-14.jpgimage0-14The Route of the Shropshire and Montgomeryshire Railwayhttps://shrewsburyrailwayheritage.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/03/image0-13.jpgimage0-13The Route of the Shropshire and Montgomeryshire Railwayhttps://shrewsburyrailwayheritage.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/03/image0-12.jpgimage0-12Map of the Shropshire and Montgomeryshire Railwayhttps://shrewsburyrailwayheritage.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/03/image0-11.jpgimage0-1Map of the Shropshire and Montgomeryshire Railwayhttps://shrewsburyrailwayheritage.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/03/image0-1.jpgMap of Shropshire and Montgomeryshire Railwayhttps://shrewsburyrailwayheritage.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/03/image10.jpgimage10The last train shunting at Abbey Foregate July 1988https://shrewsburyrailwayheritage.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/03/image51.jpgimage51WD austerity 0-6-0 No 125 at Abbey Station Marchhttps://shrewsburyrailwayheritage.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/03/image5.jpgimage5WD Austerity 0-6-0 No 125 Shunting at Abbey Foregate Station2010-03-18T14:03:18+00:00weekly0.6https://shrewsburyrailwayheritage.comdaily1.02025-10-25T16:15:23+00:00