Catalogue description Railway Plans

The railway plans listed here are housed in Shropshire Records and Research Centre in Shrewsbury. They include plans of the majority of railways constructed in the county of Salop, but the Shrewsbury to Ludlow section of the Shrewsbury to Hereford line is particularly well covered from the working plans for construction to later detailed surveys. The massive alterations to Shrewsbury station c 1900 are also recorded in great detail.

Apart from their interest to railway historians and enthusiasts, these plans include numerous incidental details, for example, former courses of roads and streams, nearby buildings, and property ownership. In some cases, these plans are the only plans of an area at a particular date and are therefore useful to students of local history not particularly interested in railways. The index includes the names of townships and parishes included on each plan, so that these incidental features may be fully used by researchers. When a plan includes detailed information on a particular station, the index will indicate this.

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