Route
The cities, towns and villages served by the routes are listed below from south to north:
- Newport
- connections with the South Wales Main Line and line to Gloucester
- Cwmbran
- Pontypool and New Inn
- Abergavenny
- Hereford
- connection with Cotswold Line to Worcester
- Leominster
- Ludlow
- Craven Arms
- connection with the Heart of Wales Line to Llanelli
- Church Stretton
- Shrewsbury
- connection with Cambrian Line to Aberystwyth and Pwllheli, and the line to Wolverhampton.
- through services via the Shrewsbury to Chester Line to Wrexham for trains to London Euston and Liverpool via Bidston, Chester then to Holyhead or Manchester.
- Yorton
- Wem
- Prees
- Whitchurch
- Wrenbury
- Nantwich
- Crewe
- connection with West Coast Main Line, and North Wales Coast Line to Holyhead
- through services to Manchester
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Famous quotes containing the word route:
“By a route obscure and lonely,
Haunted by ill angels only,
Where an eidolon, named Night,
On a black throne reigns upright,
I have reached these lands but newly
From an ultimate dim Thule—
From a wild weird clime that lieth, sublime,
Out of space—out of time.”
—Edgar Allan Poe (1809–1849)
“A route differs from a road not only because it is solely intended for vehicles, but also because it is merely a line that connects one point with another. A route has no meaning in itself; its meaning derives entirely from the two points that it connects. A road is a tribute to space. Every stretch of road has meaning in itself and invites us to stop. A route is the triumphant devaluation of space, which thanks to it has been reduced to a mere obstacle to human movement and a waste of time.”
—Milan Kundera (b. 1929)
“But however the forms of family life have changed and the number expanded, the role of the family has remained constant and it continues to be the major institution through which children pass en route to adulthood.”
—Bernice Weissbourd (20th century)