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SVR News 201 states that Eardington _was_ a "Halt" by 1952
*1893: The station platform was extended<ref name = "Marshall103" />.
*1899: The ironworks closed<ref name ="Marshall103" />.
*1949: BR reduced the station to unstaffed status after 1 April 1949, though did not designate it as a Halt.<ref name = SVR Guide” />.*1952: Station renamed to "Eardington Halt" by this date.<ref name="SVRNews201">SVR News 201</ref>
*1959: The goods loop was reduced to a siding, accessed from the south end only<ref name = SVR Guide” />.
*1963: The station closed when passenger traffic ceased on 9 September 1963<ref name = SVR Guide” />.
==Eardington in preservation==
In the earliest days of the SVR, when Bridgnorth and Hampton Loade formed the limit of operations, Eardington was used as an intermediate stopping point and watering place and was sometimes referred to as Eardington Halt (it was never deemed a Halt during GWR/BR days).
During the period of [[Sir Gerald Nabarro]]'s chairmanship it was closed in connection with the possible rebuilding of Eardington as the northern terminus on the line. It later re-opened in March 1981, but last appeared in the timetable as a request stop in 1982,<ref name = "Marshall103">The Severn Valley Railway, John Marshall (1989) p103</ref> after which it was removed from regular use due to the steep gradient, short platform, and low passenger numbers<ref>[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eardington_Halt_railway_station Wikipedia]</ref>.