Penn Halt railway station

Penn Halt
Location
Place Penn, West Midlands
Area South Staffordshire, Staffordshire
Operations
Post-grouping Great Western Railway
Platforms 1
History
1925 Station opened
1932 Station closed
Disused railway stations in the United Kingdom
Closed railway stations in Britain
A B C D–F G H–J K–L M–O P–R S T–V W–Z
UK Railways portal

Penn Halt[1] was the smallest of all stops on the Wombourne Branch Line. It was opened by the Great Western Railway in 1925 and closed in 1932. The line was single track and the halt was a single platform. It suffered from poor patronage, as with all the stations on the branch. This may have been, in part, due to the somewhat strange positioning of the station by the GWR, several miles from the nearest settlement.

This is the only station on the line that has absolutely no trace of its existence today.

Preceding station Disused railways Following station
Compton Halt   Great Western Railway
"The Wombourne Branch" (1925-1932)
  Wombourn

References

  1. By rail to Wombourn, J. Ned Williams and students of Wulfrun College, Uralia Press, 1969.

Coordinates: 52°33′48″N 2°12′11″W / 52.563386°N 2.203124°W / 52.563386; -2.203124


This article is issued from Wikipedia - version of the 1/2/2016. The text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution/Share Alike but additional terms may apply for the media files.