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Oswestry And Newtown Railway
All photographs of this railway in date order.
![Great Western scene at Oswestry in 1938 [ref query 8613]<br><br>[Dougie Squance (Courtesy Bruce McCartney) //1938]](/images/56000/56057.jpg "Oswestry")
![A GWR Churchward 43xx class 2-6-0 arrives at Oswestry in the summer of 1960.<br><br>[David Stewart //1960]](/images/49000/49112.jpg "Oswestry")
![Dukedog 4-4-0 no 9018 out of use in the sidings alongside Oswestry shed in the spring of 1960. The locomotive was cut up at Swindon Works in August that year.<br><br>[K A Gray 21/05/1960]](/images/46000/46762.jpg "Oswestry")
![The auto-train for Gobowen stands in the bay at Oswestry in August 1960. [See image 27622] <br><br>[David Stewart /08/1960]](/images/46000/46672.jpg "Oswestry")
![Locomotives around the coaling stage at Oswestry shed (89A) in August 1960. Nearest the camera is ex-GWR Collett 0-4-2T no 1432.<br><br>[David Stewart /08/1960]](/images/49000/49163.jpg "Oswestry")
![View from a Llannfyllin branch train approaching Oswestry from the south in the summer of 1960. <br><br>[David Stewart 02/08/1960]](/images/48000/48417.jpg "Oswestry")
![A smile from the signalman at Abermule on 6 August 1960. A tragic 'misunderstanding' between staff at this station some 39 years earlier led to a single line head-on collision resulting in 17 fatalities. [Ref query 8091]<br><br>[David Stewart 06/08/1960]](/images/48000/48938.jpg "Abermule")
![Busy scene in the shed yard at 89A Oswestry on 8 August 1960. The locomotive on the turntable is one of the depot's Ivatt 2-6-0s no 46514.<br><br>[David Stewart 08/08/1960]](/images/46000/46573.jpg "Oswestry")
![GWR 1400 class 0-4-2T no 1458 on shed at Oswestry in August 1960. [See image 27622] <br><br>[David Stewart 08/08/1960]](/images/47000/47442.jpg "Oswestry")
![A pair of Collett 22xx class 0-6-0s standing on the scrap road alongside Oswestry shed in the summer of 1960, with locomotive 2232 nearest the camera.<br><br>[David Stewart 08/08/1960]](/images/49000/49103.jpg "Oswestry")
![Ex-GWR 57xx class 0-6-0PT no 3770 photographed alongside Oswestry shed on 8 August 1960. <br><br>[David Stewart 08/08/1960]](/images/49000/49254.jpg "Oswestry")
![7819 <I>Hinton Manor</I> photographed on Oswestry shed in August 1960.<br><br>[David Stewart 18/08/1960]](/images/47000/47104.jpg "Oswestry")
![GWR Collett 0-6-0 no 2233 stands outside Oswestry shed in the summer of 1960. <br><br>[David Stewart 18/08/1960]](/images/47000/47626.jpg "Oswestry")
![7810 <I>Draycott Manor</I> stands in the yard alongside Oswestry shed on 2 October 1961.<br><br>[K A Gray 02/10/1961]](/images/32000/32088.jpg "Oswestry")
![Withdrawn from Machynlleth the previous month, Collett 0-6-0 no 2233 is 'stored' pending disposal alongside Oswestry shed in October 1961.<br><br>[K A Gray 02/10/1961]](/images/36000/36615.jpg "Oswestry")
![Hawksworth 0-6-0 pannier tank no 1668 in the sidings at Oswestry on 2 October 1961. Built at BR Swindon Works as recently as 1955 the locomotive would remain at Oswestry until eventual withdrawal in January 1965.<br><br>[K A Gray 02/10/1961]](/images/52000/52874.jpg "Oswestry")
![46504 on shed at Oswestry on 2 April 1963. <br><br>[K A Gray 02/04/1963]](/images/22000/22885.jpg "Oswestry")
![Collett 0-4-2T no 1458 stands in the bay at Oswestry with the auto-train for Gobowen in April 1963.<br><br>[K A Gray 02/04/1963]](/images/27000/27622.jpg "Oswestry")
![Shed scene at 89A Oswestry in 1963, featuring BR Standard 2-6-0 no 78000 and friend.<br><br>[K A Gray 02/04/1963]](/images/30000/30705.jpg "Oswestry")
![80135 with a train at Oswestry in April 1963.<br><br>[K A Gray 02/04/1963]](/images/36000/36750.jpg "Oswestry")
![With GWR lettering proudly displayed, 0-6-0PT 7428 stands at the end of a siding by Oswestry shed in April 1963.<br><br>[K A Gray 02/04/1963]](/images/45000/45702.jpg "Oswestry")
![View over the station at Newtown, Powys, in 1987.<br><br>[Ian Dinmore //1987]](/images/38000/38702.jpg "Newtown")
![A September 1987 view of Newtown signal box.<br><br>[Ian Dinmore /09/1987]](/images/40000/40183.jpg "Newtown")
![Welshpool, twinned with Dunkeld, except in this case the station has been separated from the platforms by a main road rather than just the station from the town by a main road. View south.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford 10/07/2006]](/images/9000/9974.jpg "Welshpool")
![Welshpool looking north. The station was moved slightly east to accomodate a new main road to a site approximates the former easternmost platform and sidings.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford 10/07/2006]](/images/9000/9975.jpg "Welshpool")
![Welshpool looking south showing the railway and road for which the railway was moved east. However the station building (right) has been given a new lease of life now given over to other uses.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford 10/07/2006]](/images/9000/9976.jpg "Welshpool")
![Looking south at the rather fine former Welshpool station building. The footbridge connects to the re-sited station.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford 10/07/2006]](/images/9000/9978.jpg "Welshpool")
![Oswestry station and former offices of the Cambrian Railways looking south. There was a similar but smaller building off to the left on the southbound platform.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford 10/07/2006]](/images/9000/9989.jpg "Oswestry")
![Oswestry station is now a museum. View looks south towards the carefully restored Oswestry South signalbox.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford 10/07/2006]](/images/9000/9990.jpg "Oswestry")
![The imposing Oswestry station building and Cambrian Railways offices. View looks north in July 2006.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford 10/07/2006]](/images/9000/9991.jpg "Oswestry")
![Looking north at Oswestry at the footbridge over to the Cambrian Railways works. These were on the eastern side of the line.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford 10/07/2006]](/images/9000/9992.jpg "Oswestry")
![Looking south to Oswestry station from the footbridge to the Cambrian Railways works.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford 10/07/2006]](/images/9000/9993.jpg "Oswestry")
![Several locomotives form a static exhibit to the north of Oswestry station. These are to the west of the line and former Cambrian Railways works.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford 10/07/2006]](/images/9000/9994.jpg "Oswestry")
![The Down side waiting shelter at Newtown is a large affair, as seen in this view looking towards Welshpool. All movements on this line operate on the Radio Electronic Token Block system. <br><br>[Mark Bartlett 17/09/2009]](/images/26000/26073.jpg "Newtown")
![Newtown is a passing loop on the line from Shrewsbury to Aberystwyth and retains its substantial main building on the Up side, as seen in this picture looking towards Machynlleth in September 2009.<br><br>[Mark Bartlett 17/09/2009]](/images/26000/26077.jpg "Newtown")
![The old station at Welshpool in July 2011 - now a shopping mall, albeit with a well kept roof. The fence separates the railway from the bypass. [See image 35062]<br><br>[Ken Strachan 21/07/2011]](/images/35000/35058.jpg "Welshpool")
![The new station at Welshpool, opened in 1992 [see image 35058]. Wide, windswept platforms, and bus shelter waiting areas. At least there's a bin.<br><br>[Ken Strachan 21/07/2011]](/images/35000/35062.jpg "Welshpool")
![The 12.04 to Aberystwyth awaits departure time at Newtown on 21 July under the watchful eye of the RETB mast.<br><br>[Ken Strachan 21/07/2011]](/images/35000/35469.jpg "Newtown")
![The former railway livestock pens and loading dock at Welshpool in May 2012, seen from the present station looking over what is now the town's bypass road. <br><br>[David Pesterfield 08/05/2012]](/images/38000/38805.jpg "Welshpool")
![Tram type sleepers with tie bars seen on the still active line in the former west end bay at Newtown in May 2012. In the background the 12.04 departure to Aberystwyth & Pwllheli has just left the station.<br><br>[David Pesterfield 08/05/2012]](/images/38000/38821.jpg "Newtown")
