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[[File:Buildwas-SVR-Wenlock-1961-06-09.jpg|thumb|300px|A Westbound train on the Severn Valley line, with another in the Much Wenlock branch platform behind ([[Sellick Collection]])]]
[[File:Buildwas railway station 1935708 42d2f55f.jpg|thumb|300px|Buildwas station and Ironbridge "A" power station ([[Sellick Collection]])]]
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Buildwas, officially Buildwas Junction, was situated 28½ miles from [[Hartlebury]] and 12¼ miles from [[Shrewsbury]]. It was an interchange station in open countryside with no passenger access other than by rail, and was built on two levels. The station building was of a similar design to that at [[Bewdley]].
 
[[File:Buildwas_Junction_OS_Map.jpg|600px|Buildwas Junction layout, Ordnance Survey 1903.]]<br>
Approaching the station from the south, the single track Severn Valley Line was joined from the right by the double track line from Coalbrookdale, which crossed the river via the [[Albert Edward Bridge]]. In the short distance between the bridge and the station, the Much Wenlock line (the Much Wenlock and Severn Junction Railway before incorporation into the GWR) began to branch off to the left and climb, the single platform for this branch being on a higher level than the two platforms for the Severn Valley Line (at opening on 1 February 1862, Buildwas was the first station at which trains leaving and approaching Shrewsbury could cross).
File:Buildwas-SVR-passenger-1961-06-09.jpg|A Westbound Severn Valley service waits in the station in June 1961 ([[Sellick Collection]])
File:Buildwas-6128-Goods-1961-06-09.jpg|A goods train waits to depart for Much Wenlock in June 1961 ([[Sellick Collection]])
File:Buildwas railway station 1935708 42d2f55f.jpg|Buildwas station and Ironbridge "A" power station ([[Sellick Collection]])
 
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