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Station master information supplied by Chris Haynes
The ground frame at the north end of the passing loop was removed and replaced by motorised points around 1930.<ref name=Marshall108/>
{| class="wikitable
|+ Station Masters at Coalport
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!Name!!Born !! data-sort-type="date" | From !! data-sort-type="date" | To !! Comments
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|George Broad||1824, Chute, Wiltshire|| By 1881|| ||Joined Midland Railway by 1841, then West Midlands Railway in 1847. Died 1886.
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|Daniel Merrett||1829, Standish, Gloucestershire|| November 1887|| October 1899 || Resigned. Died 1911
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|William Charles Weyman||1857, Berkeley, Gloucestershire|| 17 October 1899|| After 1918 ||
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|John Thomas||1865, Buildwas|| By April 1923|| || Also station master at [[Linley]] 1904
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|Frederick Harold Jones||1890, Burwarton, Shropshire|| By July 1926|| By September 1928 ||
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|Edward Parry Jones||1884, Welshampton|| By October 1928|| By April 1932 ||
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From 1941 Coalport came under the supervision of Ironbridge and Broseley.
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 poster and in the 1960 Sectional Appendix to the Working Time Table.
==References==
Station master information supplied by Chris Haynes
The Severn Valley Railway, John Marshall<br>
Severn Valley Railway, A View from the Past, MA Vanns<br>
