Description

SJ 80 SE
8/138

CODSALL C.P.
STATION ROAD
Codsall Railway Station and Footbridge

G.V.
II

Railway station and footbridge. Railway Station: c1850. Red brick with painted stone dressings; slate roof covered in roofing felt; brick stacks with moulded stone capping. Italianate in the style of the Shrewsbury and Birmingham line, one and two storeys; four bays; irregular, two storey projecting gable with moulded wooden barge boards and finial; two storey bay set back to right with ground floor twin round headed arches, that on the right blocked, that to left with board door; two single storey bays set back to left, that to far left with pyramidal roof and finial and blocked round arch doorway; two, three and four light round arch windows with plate glass sashes, first floor on sill band, the rest with bracketed sills.

Footbridge: dated 1883. Cast iron, corrugated iron roof with painted barge boards and gable finials. Two flights with central gangway over railway line; iron lattice guard; palmette capped columns to landings; G.W.R. emblem and date of 1883 at each end of central gangway. The Shrewsbury and Birmingham Railway opened in 1849 and was taken over by the Great Western Railway in 1854.

Listing NGR: SJ8644503299

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Codsall railway station at Wikipedia
• Wikidata Q2455479

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