Whitchurch railway station
Whitchurch railway station serves the town of Whitchurch, in Shropshire, England. The station is 18¾ miles north of Shrewsbury on the Welsh Marches Line. It is maintained and served by Transport for Wales.Photo: Stephen Craven, CC BY-SA 2.0.
- Type: Railway station
- Description: railway station in Shropshire, England, UK
- Also known as: “Whitchurch (Shropshire) railway station”, “Whitchurch Railway Station”, and “WTC”
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Whitchurch Heritage Centre and St Alkmund’s Church.
Whitchurch Heritage Centre
Museum
Photo: Ian C Garner, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Whitchurch Heritage Centre is a museum, which is situated 2,600 feet west of Whitchurch railway station.
St Alkmund’s Church
Church
Photo: Peter I. Vardy, Public domain.
St Alkmund's Church is an active Anglican parish church in Whitchurch, Shropshire, England. By tradition, this church was founded in the 900s CE by the Anglo-Saxon Queen Æthelflæd. St Alkmund’s Church is situated 3,100 feet west of Whitchurch railway station.
Sir John Talbot’s School
School
Sir John Talbot's School is a coeducational secondary school in Whitchurch, Shropshire, England, for pupils aged between 11 and 18, with a sixth form. The most recent inspection report was in April 2017 and resulted in a judgement of good in all five aspects of the inspection. Sir John Talbot’s School is situated 3,400 feet south of Whitchurch railway station.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Whitchurch and Alkington.
Whitchurch
Town
Photo: Colin Smith, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Whitchurch is a market town in the civil parish of Whitchurch Urban, in north of Shropshire, England. It lies 2 miles east of the Welsh border, 2 miles south of the Cheshire border, 20 miles north of the county town of Shrewsbury, 20 miles south of Chester, and 15 miles east of Wrexham.
Alkington
Village
Photo: Martin Wilson, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Alkington is a hamlet in Shropshire, England, near Whitchurch and south of that town. The village is on limestone and is residential. Alkington is situated 1½ miles southwest of Whitchurch railway station.
Grindley Brook
Village
Photo: Martin Clark, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Grindley Brook is a small village in Shropshire, England, on the A41 trunk road 2 miles north west of the market town of Whitchurch. It is the most northerly settlement in Shropshire and borders directly onto Cheshire, and is within the civil parish of Whitchurch Urban. Grindley Brook is situated 2 miles northwest of Whitchurch railway station.
Whitchurch railway station
- Categories: station and transportation
- Location: Whitchurch, Shropshire, West Midlands, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
52.96822° or 52° 58′ 6″ northLongitude
-2.67166° or 2° 40′ 18″ westElevation
328 feet (100 metres)Operator
Transport for Wales RailNetwork
National RailAbbreviation
“WTC”Open location code
9C4VX89H+78OpenStreetMap ID
node 1080583473OpenStreetMap feature
public_transport=stationOpenStreetMap feature
railway=station
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In Other Languages
From Dutch to Welsh—“Whitchurch railway station” goes by many names.
- Dutch: “Station Whitchurch (Shropshire)”
- Dutch: “station Whitchurch”
- Dutch: “Station Whitchurch”
- Egyptian Arabic: “محطة وايتشورتش”
- French: “gare de Whitchurch”
- French: “Whitchurch”
- Urdu: “وائٹ چرچ ریلوے اسٹیشن (شروپشائر)”
- Urdu: “وائٹ چرچ ریلوے اسٹیشن”
- Venetian: “stasion de Whitchurch”
- Welsh: “Eglwys Wen”
- Welsh: “Gorsaf reilffordd Yr Eglwys Wen”
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