Archive photos of the Oswestry to Gobowen railway show much-missed line before closure

Audience Editor at the Express & Star and Shropshire Star.

Ex-Great Western Railway pannier tank No. 6403 waits in the platform at the north end of Oswestry station with the shuttle service to Gobowen in June 1962

Oswestry was once a railway hub, but it was the branch from Gobowen that arrived first. Built in 1848 by the Shrewsbury and Chester Railway , it allowed residents in the town to change onto main line trains to continue their journeys.

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