Audlem railway station

Audlem
The station's location (1990)
Location
Place	Audlem
Area	Cheshire East
Operations
Original company	Nantwich and Market Drayton Railway
Pre-grouping	Great Western Railway
Post-grouping	Great Western Railway
History
20 October 1863	Station opens
9 September 1963	Station closes
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
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Audlem railway station was a station on the former Great Western Railway between Market Drayton and Nantwich, opened in 1863.

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.

History

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]

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

↑ "Audlem Village History website".
1 2 Butt 1995, p. 21
↑ MacDermot, E.T. (1931). History of the Great Western Railway, vol. II: 1863-1921. Paddington: Great Western Railway. p. 7. OCLC 55853736.

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Jowett, Alan (2000). Jowett's Nationalised Railway Atlas (1st ed.). Penryn, Cornwall: Atlantic Transport Publishers. ISBN 0-9068-9999-0. OCLC 228266687.
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By Great Western to Crewe, by Bob Yate, published by The Oakwood Press ISBN 0-85361-639-6

Closed railway stations in Cheshire

St Helens and Runcorn Gap Railway	Ann Street Halt Appleton

Birkenhead Railway	Daresbury Norton (Cheshire) Halton Dunham Hill Mickle Trafford Hadlow Road Neston South Parkgate

Chester to Crewe	Waverton Tattenhall Road Beeston Castle and Tarporley Calveley Worleston

Macclesfield to Marple	Bollington Higher Poynton Middlewood Higher

Northwich to Sandbach	Billinge Green Halt Middlewich Cledford Bridge Halt

Winsford and Over Branch Line	Whitegate Winsford and Over

Whitchurch and Tattenhall Railway	Waverton Tattenhall Broxton Malpas Grindley Brook Halt

Sandbach to Kidsgrove	Wheelock and Sandbach Hassall Green Lawton

Warrington and Altrincham Junction Railway	Warrington Arpley Latchford Thelwall Lymm Heatley & Warburton

Mid-Cheshire Line	Chester Northgate Mickle Trafford East Barrow for Tarvin

Chester & Connah's Quay Railway	Chester Northgate Chester Liverpool Road Blacon

Helsby to Mouldsworth Junction	Helsby and Alvanley Manley

Nantwich to Market Drayton	Coole Pilate Halt Audlem Coxbank Halt

Wirral Line	Upton-by-Chester Mollington Ledsham

Other stations	Alsager Road Balderton Basford Betley Road Bosley Burton Point Collins Green Culcheth Ditton Macclesfield Hibel Road Minshull Vernon Moore Mow Cop and Scholar Green Newchurch Halt North Rode Over and Wharton Preston Brook Radway Green and Barthomley Sutton Weaver Tanhouse Lane Widnes Central Willaston

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