Hopton Heath Station
Introduction
The photograph on this page of Hopton Heath Station by Stephen McKay as part of the Geograph project.
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Hopton Heath Station
Image: © Stephen McKay Taken: 1 Apr 2018
What is now marketed as the 'Heart of Wales' line, but was traditionally known as the Central Wales line, has many diminutive halts of which a handful, including this one, are actually in England. Hopton Heath (the Ordnance Survey gives the name for the settlement as one word, but the station has two) is surrounded by the deeply rural Clun valley and, unsurprisingly, passenger usage is low. Even so, when the station was built in 1861 it had two platforms and substantial buildings (now in private ownership). See Image for the same view in 2007.
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Image Location
Latitude
52.391279
Longitude
-2.912057