Penn Halt railway station

Penn Halt[2] was the smallest of all stops on the Wombourne Branch Line. It was opened by the Great Western Railway in 1925 and closed in 1932.[1] The line was single track and the halt was a single platform. It suffered from poor patronage, as with all the stations on the branch. This may have been, in part, due to the somewhat strange positioning of the station by the GWR, several miles from the nearest settlement. All that remains is a lot of bushes and a sign stating where the halt once was.

Penn Halt
Site of Penn Halt, nothing remains but the down ramp to the former halt
General information
LocationPenn, West Midlands, South Staffordshire, Staffordshire
England
Coordinates52°33′49″N 2°12′13″W / 52.5635°N 2.2036°W / 52.5635; -2.2036
Grid referenceSO863962
Platforms1
Other information
StatusDisused
History
Post-groupingGreat Western Railway
Key dates
1925Opened[1]
1932Closed[1]

This is now part of the South Staffordshire Railway Walk which covers the trackbed from Tettenhall railway station to Gornal Halt railway station.

Preceding station   Disused railways   Following station
Compton Halt   Great Western Railway
"The Wombourne Branch" (1925-1932)
  Wombourn

References

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  1. ^ a b c "Penn Halt station". Rail Around Birmingham and the West Midlands. Retrieved 30 March 2017.
  2. ^ Williams, J. Ned (1969). By rail to Wombourn. Uralia Press. ISBN 9780950053301. OCLC 5172527.

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