Wellington Donnington Rebuild
With grants from just about any ware Wrekin Council with the support of the MOD are relaying part of the former Wellington to Stafford line for road-rail fright traffic. The fist part of the track to Hadley is now almost complete and should be reconnected to the main line during Octobers engineering possession.
1953 OS map of the area the broken line through Wombridge is the branch to Coalport.
End of the line at Hadley with Donnington about 2 miles further on.
Vintage 1931 LNER Chair on the buffer block
View looking towards Wellington
finished track bed taken 11-10-06
current track bed opposite GKN Sankeys at Hadley
More to come as work progresses..........
os maps are crown copyright.
2004 map showing just home much the area as developed .
brief history of the line can be found here
and for background planning information visit Wrekin Councils web site
