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The station had three platforms, with two platforms at a lower level serving the Severn Valley
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Restoring Your Railway Fund to get funds for a feasibility study into reinstating the line from Wolverhampton to Ironbridge. In March 2021 a bid was made to the Restoring Your Railway fund for money to strengthen and develop the case for plans to reinstate the
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have expressed interest in the reintroduction of both heritage and passenger services to the site using the disused tracks, which currently links the power station to the
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in August 2021 over a number of issues including the level of guaranteed affordable housing, but was granted in
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for the power station was offloaded close to the site of the original station until the power station stopped generating electricity in
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562:. Transport Design International. 7 October 2021
402:. Shrewsbury: Shrewdale Publishing. p. 30.
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536:. Department for Transport. 27 October 2021
510:. Department for Transport. 27 October 2021
400:Severn Valley Railway, A View from the Past
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361:: Patrick Stephens Ltd. p. 46.
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616:. Middleton Press. figs. 95-101.
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589:. Middleton Press. figs. 54-65.
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275:Site of Buildwas station in 2018
1214:Shrewsbury and Hereford Railway
324:. Both bids were unsuccessful.
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