Audlem railway station

Audlem
Audlem
	The station's location (1990)
General information
Location	Audlem, Cheshire East; England
Platforms	2
Other information
Status	Disused
History
Original company	Nantwich and Market Drayton Railway
Pre-grouping	Great Western Railway
Post-grouping	Great Western Railway
Key dates
20 October 1863	Station opened
9 September 1963	Station closed

Audlem railway station was a station on the former Great Western Railway between Market Drayton and Nantwich, opened in 1863.

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It served the village of Audlem in Cheshire, England until closure in 1963.^[1] The station was immortalised in the song "Slow Train" by Flanders and Swann.

The station was built by the Nantwich and Market Drayton Railway (N&MDR) and opened on 20 October 1863,^[2] although the line was operated by the Great Western Railway from its opening, and the N&MDR eventually amalgamated with the Great Western Railway in 1897.^[3] The line passed on to the Western Region of British Railways on nationalisation in 1948, and was then closed to passengers by the British Railways Board on 9 September 1963.^[2]

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Preceding station	Historical railways			Following station
Coxbank Halt		Nantwich and Market Drayton Railway Great Western Railway		Coole Pilate Halt

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[1]
"Audlem Village History website". Archived from the original on 13 February 2008.
[2]
Butt 1995, p. 21
[3]
MacDermot, E.T. (1931). History of the Great Western Railway, vol. II: 1863-1921. Paddington: Great Western Railway. p. 7. OCLC 55853736.

Butt, R. V. J. (October 1995). The Directory of Railway Stations: details every public and private passenger station, halt, platform and stopping place, past and present (1st ed.). Sparkford: Patrick Stephens Ltd. ISBN 978-1-85260-508-7. OCLC 60251199. OL 11956311M.
Jowett, Alan (2000). Jowett's Nationalised Railway Atlas (1st ed.). Penryn, Cornwall: Atlantic Transport Publishers. ISBN 978-0-906899-99-1. OCLC 228266687.
Jowett, Alan (March 1989). Jowett's Railway Atlas of Great Britain and Ireland: From Pre-Grouping to the Present Day (1st ed.). Sparkford: Patrick Stephens Ltd. ISBN 978-1-85260-086-0. OCLC 22311137.
By Great Western to Crewe, by Bob Yate, published by The Oakwood Press ISBN 0-85361-639-6

Mitchell, Vic; Smith, Keith (2014). Branch Lines around Market Drayton. West Sussex: Middleton Press. figs. 54-57. ISBN 9781908174673. OCLC 913791564.

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