3. Photographs (part 2)
These later photographs show the Abbey Station site after the final closure of the railway.
- What is significant about the mode of transport associated with the site in the latter half of the twentieth century, as shown on the photographs lower down this page?
- What does this tell us about the changes to our transport habits?
![Black and white photograph looking up the tracks towards the Abbey Church, Abbey Station, 1960. A train of wagons stand on the left, a water tower to the right.[Opens in new window: image size 20kb]](../../images/tra_n05b.jpg)
Abbey Station 1960
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[Reproduced with kind permission of Mr. S.R. Turner]
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Abbey Station, Shropshire and Montgomeryshire Railway. 20th March 1960.
This photograph was taken during the last tour and train journey along the Potts line, a special trip organised by the Stephenson Locomotive Society.
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View from road of the front of the petrol station and Cureton's garage on the site of Abbey Station. Note the wagon car to the left.
This photograph was taken some time in the 1960s.
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![Black and white photograph of the front of a 1960's garage and petrol station. Site of Abbey Station. A railway wagon car sits on remaining sidings to the left of the picture. [Opens in new window: image size 34kb]](../../images/tra_n11b.jpg)
Cureton's Garage
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[Shropshire Archive reference: PH/S/13/A/5]
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![Black and white photograph of the sidings on the Abbey Station site, 1983. A British Rail Shunting engine with a train of oil transport wagons are seen in front of the Abbey Church. [Opens in new window: image size 39kb]](../../images/tra_n15b.jpg)
B.R. Shunter
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[Shropshire Archive reference: PH/S/13/A/5]
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A British Rail Shunter at work at the Abbey terminus, 1983. This was the only remaining section of track of the Old Potts line, used as a siding servicing the petrol depot.
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![Colour photograph of the view looking down the remains of the platform and showing the Abbey in the background. [Opens in new window: image size 18kb]](../../images/tra_n35b.jpg)
Platform Remains
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[Photograph: N. Elvey]
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The Abbey Station site as it is in 2004. The platform still exists and a footpath now follows the route of the Old Potts line.
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![Black and white photograph looking up the tracks towards the Abbey Church, Abbey Station, 1960. A train of wagons stand on the left, a water tower to the right.[Opens in new window: image size 20kb]](../../images/tra_n05a.jpg)
![Black and white photograph of the front of a 1960's garage and petrol station. Site of Abbey Station. A railway wagon car sits on remaining sidings to the left of the picture. [Opens in new window: image size 34kb]](../../images/tra_n11a.jpg)
![Black and white photograph of the sidings on the Abbey Station site, 1983. A British Rail Shunting engine with a train of oil transport wagons are seen in front of the Abbey Church. [Opens in new window: image size 39kb]](../../images/tra_n15a.jpg)
![Black and white photograph of the Abbey Station site in 1983. Scene of dereliction with an old railway wagon to the left and the Abbey Church in the background.[Opens in new window: image size 40kb]](../../images/tra_n14a.jpg)
![Colour photograph of the view looking down the remains of the platform and showing the Abbey in the background. [Opens in new window: image size 18kb]](../../images/tra_n35a.jpg)
![Colour photograph looking from the opposite side of Abbey Foregate towards the car park, site of the Abbey Station. [Opens in new window: image size 24kb]](../../images/tra_n36a.jpg)