Audlem | |
Status: | Disused |
Borough: | Audlem, Cheshire East |
Country: | England |
Platforms: | 2 |
Original: | Nantwich and Market Drayton Railway |
Pregroup: | Great Western Railway |
Postgroup: | Great Western Railway |
Years: | 20 October 1863 |
Events: | Station opened |
Years2: | 9 September 1963 |
Events2: | Station closed |
Audlem railway station was a station on the former Great Western Railway between Market Drayton and Nantwich, opened in 1863.
It served the village of Audlem in Cheshire, England until closure in 1963.[1] The station was immortalised in the song "Slow Train" by Flanders and Swann.
The station was built by the Nantwich and Market Drayton Railway (N&MDR) and opened on 20 October 1863, although the line was operated by the Great Western Railway from its opening, and the N&MDR eventually amalgamated with the Great Western Railway in 1897.[2] The line passed on to the Western Region of British Railways on nationalisation in 1948, and was then closed to passengers by the British Railways Board on 9 September 1963.