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During the BR era the station was renamed 'Coalport West',<ref>[[Bibliography#Other References|Butt (1995)]]</ref> presumably to differentiate it from the nearby ex-LNWR 'Coalport East' station. The change seems to have had little impact in practice, as use of the original name "Coalport" continued in [[Engineer's Line References]], [[Timetables in commercial service|BR Working Timetables]], and on the platform running in boards.<ref>[[Bibliography#Books|Mitchell and Smith (2007)]] fig. 83.</ref> The 1963 BR notice of closure of the line also referred to the station only as Coalport. However the 'Coalport West' name was used from time to time, such as on a 1957 excursion posterand in the 1960 Sectional Appendix to the Working Time Table.

The [[The Severn Valley Railway under GWR/BR ownership# Timetable extracts | BR(W) Working Timetables]] for 1948 and 1959 include the following operating instruction specific to Coalport: ''When a Freight Train is standing in either of the sidings on the Up Side at Coalport, waiting for a train to pass, the Guard must divide his train to provide space for the Signalman to pass through for the purpose of exchanging train staffs with the passing train''.<br>In 1960 the loop capacity was 27 wagons, plus engine and brake van.<ref>Sectional Appendix to the Working Time Tables and Books of Rules and Regulations, Birmingham Traffic District, October 1960</ref>