Prees railway station serves the village of
Prees
Prees () is a village and civil parish in north Shropshire, near the border between England and Wales. Its name is Celtic and means "brushwood".
Prees civil parish
The civil parish includes many other villages and hamlets as well as the namesa ...
in
Shropshire
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,
England
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, although the station is a mile to the west of the village and in the parish of
Wem Rural
Wem Rural is a large civil parish in Shropshire, England that encircles, but does not include, the market town of Wem. Its settlements include the villages of Aston and Barkers Green (east of Wem), Coton, Edstaston, Quina Brook and Pepperstre ...
. The station is from South Junction (approximately north of
Shrewsbury
Shrewsbury ( , ) is a market town and civil parish in Shropshire (district), Shropshire, England. It is sited on the River Severn, northwest of Wolverhampton, west of Telford, southeast of Wrexham and north of Hereford. At the 2021 United ...
) on the
Welsh Marches Line. It was opened by the
Crewe and Shrewsbury Railway
The Crewe and Shrewsbury Railway was a railway company which was previously owned by the London and North Western Railway (LNWR), built to connect Crewe with the Shrewsbury and Hereford Railway which was jointly owned with GWR.
Authorised in 1 ...
in 1858.
The station has two platforms and trains only stop here
upon request. It is managed by
Transport for Wales
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.
Facilities
It is unstaffed and has no ticketing provision - tickets must be bought on the train or prior to travel. The old buildings that once stood here have been demolished (as has the
signal box
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In ...
following resignalling work in 2013) and only standard waiting shelters are now provided. Train running information is offered via CIS displays, timetable posters and customer help points on each side (there is also a payphone on platform 2). Step-free access is available to both platforms via ramps and the road crossing at the north end.
Services
Monday to Saturdays there is generally a two-hourly service from here southbound to Shrewsbury and northbound to Crewe. These are mostly local trains stopping at all stations en route, but two on weekdays continue to via the
Heart of Wales Line and some early morning and late evening trains are through trains to either
Manchester Piccadilly
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or Cardiff Central. Six southbound and four northbound trains call on Sundays.
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Railway stations in Shropshire
DfT Category F2 stations
Former London and North Western Railway stations
Railway stations in Great Britain opened in 1858
Railway stations served by Transport for Wales Rail
Railway request stops in Great Britain
1858 establishments in England
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