Closed Stations Journey quiz

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Upton-on-Severn

 

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Malvern Hanley Road

 

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Newland Halt

 

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Bransford Road

 

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Rushwick Halt

 

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Boughton Halt

 

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Henwick

 

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Norton Halt

 

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Stoulton

 

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Wyre Halt

 

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Fladbury

 

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Littleton & Badsey

 

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Mickleton Halt

 

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Chipping Campden

 

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Blockley

 

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"1st" and "2nd" stations, which I tend to dread; but -- hoping that it "counts": Moreton (1st)

 

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"1st" and "2nd" stations, which I tend to dread; but -- hoping that it "counts": Moreton (1st)

I have no previous knowledge of the abovementioned 1st station above....can you furnish its location to the currently open station, plus the opening and closing dates.

I had assumed that we would now be taking the GWR Shipston-on-Stour branch line.

 

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I have no previous knowledge of the abovementioned 1st station above....can you furnish its location to the currently open station, plus the opening and closing dates.

I had assumed that we would now be taking the GWR Shipston-on-Stour branch line.

We are so doing, according to my -- probably flawed -- information: from a certain rogue atlas-compiler with surname initial D, who shows -- just on the branch after diverging from the main line -- a closed station "Moreton (1st)", in red, indicating "closed before 1901". That's all the gen I have, or am likely to have: should you give it the "thumbs down", last valid post will have been your Blockley, if I have things rightly.

 

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There are only three closed stations on the final line of this journey.

 

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Stretton-on-Fosse

 

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Longdon Road

INFORMATION
The currently open station of Moreton-in-Marsh was opened on 4th June 1853 by the Oxford, Worcester and Wolverhampton Railway. I still cannot trace a station that closed prior to 1853.

 

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Shipston-on-Stour -- journey's end

INFORMATION
The currently open station of Moreton-in-Marsh was opened on 4th June 1853 by the Oxford, Worcester and Wolverhampton Railway. I still cannot trace a station that closed prior to 1853.

As I'm forever admonishing myself: "I must not blindly take as true, stuff from Dewick's Complete Atlas of Railway Station Names, without checking it against another source !"

 

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We next move to Wales for the next journey.....

This is number 825 in the series so far.....

The journey starts at the closed station of Llys Halt
It follows the line of the GWR Ruabon to Barmouth Line
It then follows the line of the Aberystwyth and Welsh Coast Railway
It then follows the line of the Carnarvonshire Railway
It then follows the line of the Bangor and Carnarvon Railway...note 1st and 2nd stations
It then follows the line of the Chester and Holyhead Railway
It then follows the line of the Chester and Crewe Railway...note 1st and 2nd stations
It then follows the line of the Whitchurch and Tattenhall Railway
It then follows the line of the Oswestry, Ellesmere and Whitchurch Railway
It then follows the line of the Oswestry and Newtown Railway
It then follows the line of the Shrewsbury and Welshpool Railway
It then follows the line of the GWR Minsterley Branch Line
The journey ends at the closed station of Minsterley

The first closed station on this journey is Llys Halt

 

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Garneddwen Halt

 

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Drws-y-Nant

 

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Wnion Halt

 

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Bont Newydd

 

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Dolserau Halt

 

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Dolgellau

 

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Note: with reference to Moreton in Marsh first station. I think this must be a reference to the terminus of the Stratford and Moreton Tramway, which I believe was on a spur. There is rather a nice picture of the buildings here:

https://www.warwickshirerailways.com/gwr/gwrmm978.htm

I will do a bit of old OS map digging tomorrow!