New Hadley Halt railway station

New Hadley Halt
General information
Location	Ketley, Shropshire England
Coordinates	52.7000°N 2.4734°W / 52.7000; -2.4734
Grid reference	SJ680115
Platforms	2
Other information
Status	Disused
History
Original company	Great Western Railway
Post-grouping	Great Western Railway
Key dates
3 November 1934	Opened[1]
13 May 1985	Closed[1]

New Hadley Halt was a minor station between Oakengates and Wellington on the former Great Western Railway's London Paddington to Birkenhead via Birmingham Snow Hill line. It was opened by the Great Western Railway in 1934.[2] It was closed on 13 May 1985 due to uneconomic required repairs[3] and it was demolished in 1986.

References

1. "Station Name: New Hadley Halt". Disused Stations. Retrieved 18 March 2017.
2. "New Hadley: provision of halt". 11 June 1934 – via National Archive of the UK.
3. "List of dates from 1 January 1985 to 20 January 2006 of last passenger trains at closed BR (or Network Rail stations since privatisation)" (PDF). Department for Transport Website: Freedom of Information Act responses, February 2006. Department for Transport. 2006. Archived from the original (PDF) on 12 May 2009. Retrieved 5 December 2014.

Further reading

• Mitchell, Vic; Smith, Keith (2009). Wolverhampton to Shrewsbury. Middleton Press. figs. 91-93. ISBN 9781906008444. OCLC 286385795.

Preceding station		Disused railways		Following station
Wellington Line and station open		Great Western Railway Wolverhampton–Shrewsbury line		Oakengates Line and station open