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Posted by Roger Farnworth (Member # 197595) on :

The December 1905 Railway Magazine focussed on Shrewsbury Railway Station as the 34th location in its Notable Railway Stations series.

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The Railway Magazine carried an article about the relatively newly refurbished Shrewsbury Railway Station which started by remarking on the debt Shrewsbury Station owed to the construction of the Severn Tunnel: “it is to the Severn Tunnel that Shrewsbury owes the position it claims as one of the most important distributing centres in the country if not the most. In telephonic language, it is a “switch board,” and those on the spot claim that more traffic is interchanged and redistributed at Shrewsbury than even at York.”