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Bridgnorth
(1862 - 1963)
Heritage


Bridgnorth station was opened to the public on February 1 1862 and it closed to passengers after 101 years on September 9 1963, and to freight traffic in November 1963

The neo-Jacobean station is the only listed station on the Severn Valley Railway and is in process of restoration work by a team of dedicated volunteers

Preservation gains momentum until the present day.  Bridgnorth became the engineering centre of the new SVR because of the need to repair the growing number of rolling stock items and locomotives after opening to the public when the first train steamed from Bridgnorth to Hampton Loade in May 1970

Plans for a significant redevelopment of Bridgnorth station were approved by Shropshire Council in August 2016. The first phase of the project involving the construction of a new single-storey building in GWR circa 1900-style to provide a tea/refreshment room and new toilet facilities was completed at the end of 2018, as was the creation of an additional car park










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