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Buttington
General information
Location	Buttington, Powys Wales
Coordinates	52°40′58″N 3°05′33″W / 52.6827°N 3.0925°W / 52.6827; -3.0925
Grid reference	SJ262100
Platforms	4
Other information
Status	Disused
History
Original company	Oswestry and Newtown Railway
Pre-grouping	Cambrian Railways
Post-grouping	Great Western Railway
Key dates
November 1860	Opened
12 September 1960	Closed

Buttington railway station was a station in Buttington, Powys, Wales. The station was opened in November 1860, several months after the line that served it (the Oswestry and Newtown Railway). A second line - the jointly operated Shrewsbury and Welshpool Railway reached the station in January 1862. It was substantially rebuilt (with additional platforms) in 1893 by the Cambrian Railways, when the route west to Welshpool was doubled.

It was closed to both passenger and goods traffic on 12 September 1960, along with all the other intermediate stations on the Shrewsbury to Welshpool section. The former O&NR route to Oswestry and Whitchurch subsequently closed in January 1965, leaving just the Shrewsbury to Welshpool line in operation - this is still open today, though no trace of the station itself remains.

References

1. ^ "Station Name: Buttington". Disused Stations. Retrieved 27 February 2017.
2. Quick, M E (2002). Railway passenger stations in England, Scotland and Wales – a chronology. Richmond: Railway and Canal Historical Society. p. 106. OCLC 931112387.

Further reading

• Mitchell, Vic; Smith, Keith (2008). Shrewsbury to Newtown. Middleton Press. figs. 59-62. ISBN 9781906008291. OCLC 228374968.

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