Westbury railway station was a station in

Westbury, Shropshire Westbury is a village and parish in Shropshire, England. It includes the settlements of Caus Forest, Lake, Marche, Newtown, Stoney Stretton, Vennington, Wallop, Westbury, Whitton, Winsley and Yockleton. It lies west of the town of Shrewsbury, ...

, England. The station was opened in 1862 by the Shrewsbury and Welshpool Railway company, later coming under the joint control of the

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and the

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. It closed (along with all the other intermediate stations) on 12 September 1960, though it retained its passing loop and

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until 1988, when the modernisation scheme for the line saw Radio Electronic Token Block signalling commissioned, all remaining manual signal boxes closed and control passed to the signalling centre at . Just a year earlier, the loop was the site of a head-on collision between two passenger trains after one passed a signal at danger. One of the two

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s involved was derailed and 37 people were injured. The former main building survives here in occupation as a private house, along with the now automatic level crossing over the B4387 road."Points of Interest Shrewsbury-Machynlleth"
''Visit Mid-Wales'' website article; Retrieved 1 August 2017

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