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[[File:Cressage station former geograph-31162345153-by1963-Ben03-Brooksbank02.jpg |thumb|300px|right| Former Ex-GWR 5153 passes Cressage with an up goods in March 1963 ([[Sellick Collection]])]]Cressage was a stationon the original Severn Valley line, 1983 32&frac12; miles from [[Hartlebury]] and 8&frac14; miles from Shrewsbury. The village it served had a population of approximately 350 in 1861.<ref name=Vanns>[[Bibliography#Books|Vanns (Ben Brooksbank via Wikimedia Commons1998)]]p. 28.</ref><ref>[[Bibliography#Books|Mitchell & Smith (2007)]] fig. XIX.</ref> 

Cressage was a station on the original Severn Valley line, 32&frac12; miles from [[Hartlebury]] and 8&frac14; miles from Shrewsbury. ==Opening==When the line opened in on 1 February 1862 it , Cressage had a single platform and a siding, but by . On 14 June 1893/94 it had acquired an additional the GWR authorised the construction of a second platform with a passing loop and signal box. The signal box was equipped with a 23-lever frame and a gate wheel to operate the four level crossing gates, while a two-lever ground frame, locked from the signal box, worked the loop points at the north end of the station. The second platform, which became the Down platform, had a small ‘waiting shed’. The Up platform was also extended, the total cost of these works being £671. They were brought into use on 14 July 1894 after being approved by the Board of Trade inspector Major Yorke.  The station master’s house was provided with an extra bedroom in 1901.<ref name = Vanns/><ref>[[Bibliography#Books|Marshall (1989)]] p. 111.</ref>Severn Valley Railway, A View From In the 1920s and 1930s the Past, M A Vannsstation had a staff of three.<ref>[[Bibliography#Books|Mitchell & Smith (2007)]] fig. 102.</ref>

==Traffic statistics=={| class="wikitable"|+ [[The Severn Valley Railway under GWR/BR ownership#Traffic statistics|GWR Traffic statistics]] for Cressage, selected years prior to 1939<ref>[[Bibliography#Books|Nabarro (1971)]] p. 56.</ref>|-! !! colspan="3" | Passenger Traffic !! colspan="2" | Freight Traffic !! |-! Year !! Tickets issued !! Parcels despatched !! Revenue (&pound;) !! Tons received &amp; despatched !! Revenue (&pound;) !! Total revenue (&pound;)|-|1903||style="text-align:right"|13,514||style="text-align:right"|2,692||style="text-align:right"|979|style="text-align:right"|5,768||style="text-align:right"|1,329||style="text-align:right"|2,308|-|1913||style="text-align:right"|14,353||style="text-align:right"|4,109||style="text-align:right"|1,064|style="text-align:right"|5,305||style="text-align:right"|1,449||style="text-align:right"|2,513|-|1923||style="text-align:right"|12,558||style="text-align:right"|11,119||style="text-align:right"|1,871|style="text-align:right"|4,020||style="text-align:right"|1,852||style="text-align:right"|3,723|-|1933||style="text-align:right"|5,852||style="text-align:right"|3,985||style="text-align:right"|736|style="text-align:right"|3,225||style="text-align:right"|1,081||style="text-align:right"|1,817|-|1938||style="text-align:right"|5,161||style="text-align:right"|2,024||style="text-align:right"|447|style="text-align:right"|2,399||style="text-align:right"|1,023||style="text-align:right"|1,470|-|} ==Closure==[[File:Cressage station former geograph-3116234-by-Ben-Brooksbank.jpg |thumb|300px|right| Former Cressage station, 1983 (Ben Brooksbank via Wikimedia Commons)]]The station closed on 9 September 1963, when passenger services between [[Bewdley]] and Shrewsbury were withdrawn by BR. Through freight services continued until 30 November of that year, after which the signal box was taken out of use on 2 December 1963. Despite the end of all services, the line between Shrewsbury and Buildwas, including Cressage, was maintained in working order for the move of boilers and other large equipment to Ironbridge Power Station which took place on 22 April 1966. The line between [[ShrewsburyBerrington]] and [[Buildwas]] was then completely closed and the track lifted.<ref>[[Bibliography#Books|Magner (1997)]] were withdrawnp. The former station master’s house is now a private residence35.</ref>

==Gallery==<gallery>File:Cressage-5153-1963-03-02The former station master’s house is now a private residence.jpg|Ex-GWR 5153 passes Cressage with an up goods in March 1963 ([[Sellick Collection]])</gallery>