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Shrewsbury, Oswestry And Chester Junction Railway
All photographs of this railway in date order.
![A pleasant August afternoon at Gobowen station in 1960, with Worcester based Modified Hall 4-6-0 no 6984 <I>Owsden Hall</I> at the platform awaiting departure with a northbound train towards Wrexham. <br><br>[David Stewart /08/1960]](/images/46000/46420.jpg "Gobowen")
![Wolverhampton based ex-GWR Castle class 4-6-0 no 5019 <I>Treago Castle</I> at the head of a train thought to be just north of Gobowen heading for Birkenhead in August 1960. [Ref long term query 13430]. <br><br>[David Stewart /08/1960]](/images/50000/50656.jpg "Gobowen")
![40185 comes off Chirk Viaduct with a southbound block oil train, probably from the Stanlow refinery, in June 1974. The 'J' in the reporting code indicates the LMR's Shrewsbury Division, which included Aberystwyth, a likely destination for such a train at that time.<br><br>[Bill Jamieson 04/06/1974]](/images/30000/30139.jpg "Chirk Viaduct")
![47056 running between Weston Rhyn and Chirk on the Shrewsbury to Chester line in June 1974 with a northbound train of what appear to be empty single bolster wagons. <br>
<br><br>[Bill Jamieson 04/06/1974]](/images/30000/30589.jpg "Chirk")
![A pair of class 25 locomotives running through Gobowen station in March 1985.<br><br>[Ian Dinmore /03/1985]](/images/38000/38860.jpg "Gobowen")
![DMU approaching Gobowen station in March 1985. View north towards Chirk Road level crossing.<br><br>[Ian Dinmore /03/1985]](/images/40000/40707.jpg "Gobowen")
![Photo stop at Gobowen for the passengers on the <I>Cam Camwell 80th Birthday Special</I>, a surprise trip for W. A. Camwell organised by friends and which ran Wolverhampton to Shrewsbury, behind Green Class 47 47484<I> Isambard Kingdom Brunel</I>, Shrewsbury Chester Stockport behind the LNWR Coal Tank seen here and then back to Wolverhampton behind AC Electric 86103 <I>Andre Chapelon</I>. Photograph by Mark Bartlett<br><br>[W A Camwell Collection (Courtesy Mark Bartlett) 18/10/1986]](/images/25000/25361.jpg "Gobowen")
![Gobowen Junction looking south. Shrewsbury line to left and Oswestry line to right.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford 10/07/2006]](/images/9000/9858.jpg "Gobowen")
![Gobowen looking north. Some canopies may have gone and the footbridge but this is still a fine station.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford 10/07/2006]](/images/9000/9941.jpg "Gobowen")
![Coal loading from railway to trucks for local distribution in the goods yard at Gobowen station.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford 10/07/2006]](/images/9000/9995.jpg "Gobowen")
![Whittington Low Level station, on the Chester to Shrewsbury route, closed in 1960. Despite a number of vigorous local campaigns it has never reopened but the station building survives as a private residence. The High Level station was on the Cambrian route to Oswestry that crossed this line at right angles. This view is south towards Shrewsbury from the level crossing. <br><br>[Mark Bartlett 17/09/2009]](/images/25000/25499.jpg "Whittington Low level")
![Oswestry Branch Junction and run round spur viewed looking south from Gobowen Station in May 2010. The line on the right formerly served the now abandoned coal yard sited alongside the station. <br><br>[David Pesterfield 24/05/2010]](/images/29000/29169.jpg "Gobowen")
![Grab shot from the 0822 Chester - Cardiff (ex-Holyhead) train passing the Kronospan plant at Chirk, showing DRS 66434, a regular locomotive on the Carlisle timber trains of late, having completed the unloading process, with a discussion group meeting alongside.<br>
<br><br>[David Pesterfield 25/05/2010]](/images/29000/29157.jpg "Chirk")
![A northbound service approaches Chirk station in February 2011. The southern ends of the platforms are out of use. To the right was the former Glyn Valley Tramway's 1885 extension to Chirk and below (and to the right) is the Shropshire Union Canal's Llangollen Branch running through the Chirk Tunnel (the 'Darkie' Tunnel).<br><br>[Ewan Crawford 21/02/2011]](/images/32000/32919.jpg "Chirk")
![Chirk Aquaduct (left) on the Llangollen branch of the Shropshire Union Canal was later paralleled by Chirk Viaduct (right) of the Shrewsbury Oswestry and Chester Junction Railway. The view looks south.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford 21/02/2011]](/images/32000/32947.jpg "Chirk Viaduct")
![Viaducts in the morning mist. This view looks west to the Chirk Viaduct and beyond it the Chirk Aquaduct.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford 21/02/2011]](/images/33000/33786.jpg "Chirk Viaduct")
![GWR style running in board at the north end of Gobowen up platform in October 2012.<br><br>[David Pesterfield 01/10/2012]](/images/41000/41039.jpg "Gobowen")
