Condover railway station was located in the village of
Condover
Condover is a village and Civil parishes in England, civil parish in Shropshire, England. It is about south of the county town of Shrewsbury, and just east of the A49 road, A49. The Cound Brook flows through the village on its way from the Stret ...
,
Shropshire
Shropshire (; alternatively Salop; abbreviated in print only as Shrops; demonym Salopian ) is a landlocked historic county in the West Midlands region of England. It is bordered by Wales to the west and the English counties of Cheshire to th ...
.
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Originally built by the
Shrewsbury and Hereford Railway
The Shrewsbury and Hereford Railway was an English railway company that built a standard gauge line between those places. It opened its main line in 1853.
Its natural ally seemed to be the Great Western Railway. With other lines it formed a rou ...
and opened in 1852, the station closed in 1958 but its line, the
Welsh Marches Line, is still operational.
The station building is now a
cattery
A cattery means any building, collection of buildings or property in which cats are housed, maintained, and in some cases bred. A cattery can be anything from a state-of-the-art facility with CCTV, televisions and water features to a building at ...
and kennels.
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Railway stations in Great Britain opened in 1852
Railway stations in Great Britain closed in 1958
Disused railway stations in Shropshire
1852 establishments in England
Former Shrewsbury and Hereford Railway stations
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