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[[File:Shrewsbury Station; south end, with train arriving from Aberystwyth geograph-2540220-by-Ben-Brooksbank.jpg|thumb|300px|right| Shrewsbury Station in 1962 (Wikimedia Commons)]]{| class="wikitable"|+Next stations pre-closure|-! Towards the north !! Towards [[Hartlebury]] and [[Kidderminster]] |-| The Severn Valley line terminated at Shrewsbury. || [[Berrington]] (4&frac14; miles)|- |} Shrewsbury is the county town of Shropshire, situated on the [[River Severn]]. Shrewsbury station, formerly known as 'Shrewsbury General', is a major junction between various [[Great Western Railway|GWR]] and [[LNWR]] routes, and was the Northern northern terminus of the [[The Severn Valley Railway under GWR/BR ownership|Severn Valley Railway]], which connected it to [[Bridgnorth]], [[Bewdley]] and [[Hartlebury]]<ref>[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shrewsbury_railway_station Wikipedia - Shrewsbury Railway Station]</ref>.

Shrewsbury was the Northernmost northernmost station on the Severn Valley Line until the cessation of passenger services between [[Bewdley]] and Shrewsbury and closure of the line North north of [[Alveley Colliery]] in 1963. The SVR line diverged from the Shrewsbury-[[Hereford]] line at [[Sutton Bridge Junction]], which still exists today as the junction for the former Cambrian Railways line to Aberystwyth and Pwllheli <refname="semaphores">David J. Parker, "Under the Semaphores at Shrewsbury, 1987-1994". Blurb Books.</ref>. Severn Valley line services generally used the now-closed bay platforms 1 and 2 at Shrewsbury station.

A short stub of the SVR was kept open until July 1988, in order to service an oil depot on the site the Shropshire and Montgomery railway's Shrewsbury Abbey station, a connection to the depot being built in 1960<refname="semaphores" />David J. Parker, "Under  ==See also==[[Maps#Schematic maps of the Semaphores at Shrewsbury, 1987pre-1994". Blurb Books.closure SVR | Pre-1963 map]]<br>[[The Severn Valley Railway under GWR/ref>.BR ownership#FormerStations | List of former stations]]