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The station closed along with the Severn Valley Line in 1963. The station building is now a private house. In May 2017 it was offered for sale at a price of £950,000.<ref>[http://www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/property-66631712.html Rightmove.co.uk] retrieved 1 August 2017</ref>
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[[File:Coalport Postcard.jpg|thumb|300px|Postcard of Coalport circa 1900]]
[[File:Coalport-DMU-1962-09-29.jpg|thumb|300px|A Northbound DMU at Coalport in September 1962 . The signal box can be seen in the far distance. ([[Sellick Collection]])]]
[[File:82009 at Coalport.jpg|thumb|300px|82009 calls at Coalport on 25 July 1959]]
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Coalport Station was located 25 miles from Hartlebury and 15¾ miles from Shrewsbury.
==LocationHistory==The station opened on 1 February 1862 with a single platform. On 28 February 1894, GWR General Manager Henry Lambert proposed that the station should become a crossing place with the addition of a second platform and [[File:Coalport OSBrick & Tile Works Siding|additional sidings for Exley & Sons' traffic]] at a total cost of £4,062.JPG <ref name=Marshall108>[[Bibliography#Books| 500 pxMarshall (1989)]]p. 108.<br/ref>Like The [[IronbridgeList of signal boxes#List of historical Signal Boxes and Ground Frames|signal box]], the station was inconveniently a GWR <noglossary>Type 5</noglossary> brick signal box with a 31 lever frame comprising 24 working levers and 7 spares. It was situated on the opposite bank some way south of the river from the town it servedstation. The town loop was most noted for the Coalport China Works longest on the Severn Valley Branch with a length of John Rose & Co1,476ft,<ref name=Marshall108/> and for that reason a two-lever ground frame, although this was mainly served by sidings of the nearby LNWR branch line locked from Hadley Junction near Wellington on the opposite side of signal box, worked the river to loop points and FPL at the SVR line. The LNWR branch terminated at their Coalport East station, which was located almost directly opposite north end of the GWR station. Perhaps for these reasons Coalport was, in 1895, Col. Yorke gave approval of the last new works on behalf of the Severn Valley Railway's stations to be upgraded by the provision Board of second platform with passing loop and fully interlocked signal boxTrade on 22 January 1896.<ref name=Marshall108/>
On 27 May 1903, approval was given for an additional bedroom for the Stationmaster’s house at a cost of £84.<ref name=Marshall108/>
The ground frame at the north end of the passing loop was removed and replaced by motorised points around 1930.<ref name=Marshall108/>
The station closed to passengers from 9 September 1963. The signal box was closed on 2 December 1963 after through freight services ended. The station building is now a private house. In May 2017 it was offered for sale at a price of £950,000.<ref>[http://www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/property-66631712.html Rightmove.co.uk] retrieved 1 August 2017</ref>
==Coalport passing loop operating instructions==
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''.
==Traffic statistics==
==See also==
*[[The Severn Valley Railway under GWR/BR ownership# Map of the Route and Nearby Railways | The Severn Valley Railway under GWR/BR ownership]]*[[Maps#Schematic maps of the pre-closure SVR | Pre-1963 map]]*[[Shropshire Historic Environment Record]]
==References==
Severn Valley Railway, A View from the Past, MA Vanns<br>
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