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Jackfield Halt opened on 3 December 1934, one of a number of halts opened around that time in a bid to attract more local custom to the line. It consisted of a simple wooden platform with a small wooden shelter, and was situated to the west (north in the direction of travel) of the nearby sidings of the [[Maw and Co's Siding | Maw & Company]] tile works (now the site of the Maws Craft Centre). The location, approximately mid-way between [[Coalport]] and [[Ironbridge and Broseley | Ironbridge]], was adjacent to the distant signal which protected the level crossing for at [[Jackfield sidings|Jackfield sidings South ground frame]] (next to the former Craven Dunnill factory, now the Ironbridge Gorge Museum Trust's Jackfield Tile Museum). The road which though the level crossing served the area of the nearby village known as Salthouseswhich lay between the halt and the River Severn..<ref name = "Stretton">[[Bibliography#Books | Stretton (2010), p. 97.]]</ref>

<gallery mode=packed heights=400px style="text-align:left">OS_Jackfield_Halt.jpg|OS Map extract showing the old and new locations of the Halt relative to the Maw and Co. factory ("Benthall Encaustic Tile Works") </gallery> The original halt was situated on the Doughty Fault<ref>[[Bibliography#Books | Vanns (1998)]] p.46.</ref> on an area of unstable ground, made worse by the history of clay mining in the area. This caused a number of In 1882, Maw & Co undertook to sink several old boiler shells vertically into the ground and fill them with concrete in an attempt to stabilise the ground. However the problems continued over the years, culminating in a major landslide in spring 1952 when the line and halt slumped 25ft towards the river; many houses in the Salthouses area were also destroyed. Following this, the halt platform and shelter were relocated by around &frac14; mile to a position east of the sidings (south in the direction of travel), re-opening on 1 March 1954.<ref name = "Marshall">[[Bibliography#Books | Marshall (1989), p. 109.]]</ref> Thereafter the area remained subject to further subsidence, requiring regular re-alignment and re-ballasting of the line which was subject to a 5 m.p.h. restriction.<ref name = "Stretton" />