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Latitude: 52.6382 / 52°38'17"N
Longitude: -2.269 / 2°16'8"W
OS Eastings: 381891
OS Northings: 304529
OS Grid: SJ818045
Mapcode National: GBR 07B.P4F
Mapcode Global: WHBFJ.3YSC
Plus Code: 9C4VJPQJ+79
Entry Name: Railway Station and Footbridge
Listing Date: 26 September 1984
Grade: II
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1221627
English Heritage Legacy ID: 255141
Also known as: Albrighton Railway Station And Footbridge
Albrighton station
ALB
ID on this website: 101221627
Location: Albrighton, Shropshire, WV7
County: Shropshire
Civil Parish: Albrighton
Built-Up Area: Albrighton
Traditional County: Shropshire
Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Shropshire
Church of England Parish: Albrighton St Mary Magdalene
Church of England Diocese: Lichfield
Tagged with: Railway station
SJ 80 SW, ALBRIGHTON C.P., STATION ROAD,
6/35
Railway Station and Footbridge
G.V.
II
Railway Station and footbridge. C.1850 and c.1880. Station red brick
with stone dressings; slate roofs. Italianate. in the style of the
Shrewsbury and Birmingham line. One and two storeys, five bays, irregular;
extra waiting room added to left; 2-storeyed gabled break with moulded
wooden bargeboards and finial, flanked by twin arched projections,
left hand a loggia, the right hand blocked; 2 and 3-light round arched
windows with sashes, first floor on sill band, rest with bracketed
sills. Prominent chimneys, principal one with four shafts and moulded
capping. Platform canopy replaced on the downline side c.1880; on
the upline side, built on a vaulted basement, four windows and four doors,
fretted iron brackets to canopy. Footbridge. Wooden and cast-iron,
corrugated iron roof, gable finials. 4 flights with central gangway,
iron lattice guard, pierced bargeboards, weatherboarded sides to lower
part; palmette capped columns to landings, G.W.R. emblem and date 1883
at each end of the central gangway.
The Shrewsbury and Birmingham
Railway opened in 1849, Albrighton being one of its original stations,
and was taken over by the Great Western Railway in 1854.
Listing NGR: SJ8189104529
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