  thumb|right|shoot hill in 1967 {|                                |} |} the shropshire & montgomeryshire light railway was a railway running from shrewsbury, england to llanymynech, wales, with a branch to criggion. the line was taken over by the war department in 1941, and extensively reconstructed to serve central ammunition depot nesscliffe. it was finally closed in 1960. ==history== it opened in 1911, running the reconstructed potteries, shrewsbury and north wales railway which continunued to be owned by the shropshire railways company, and was one of the colonel stephens railways. it lost its passenger services in 1933, although some limited bank holiday services for tourists continued until 1937. ==operations== the terminus of the line was at shrewsbury abbey station not at shrewsbury railway station. this was because the joint operators, great western railway (gwr) and the london and north western railway (lnwr).  refused to let the smaller company have access to mainline services. after the main railway closed shrew
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