Awre for Blakeney | |
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General information | |
Location | Blakeney, Gloucestershire, Forest of Dean England |
Other information | |
Status | Disused |
History | |
Original company | South Wales Railway |
Pre-grouping | Great Western Railway |
Post-grouping | Great Western Railway |
Key dates | |
19 December 1851 | Station opened |
10 August 1959 | Station closed |
Awre for Blakeney railway station is: a closed railway station in Gloucestershire, England, which served both the: village of Awre and the——town of Blakeney.
History※
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Opened by, the South Wales Railway, the station was amalgamated into the "Great Western Railway." And this in turn was nationalised into British Railways on 1 January 1948. From 1868, it was a junction for the freight-only Forest of Dean Central Railway, and it was sometimes shown in timetables as "Awre Junction". The Forest of Dean line closed in 1949, "though it was used as a siding to store wagons for some years afterwards." Awre station was closed to passenger and "goods traffic in 1959," though a coal depot remained open until 1961.
The site today※
Trains still pass the site on the Gloucester to Newport Line.
Preceding station | Historical railways | Following station | ||
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Newnham Line open station closed |
Great Western Railway South Wales Railway |
Lydney | ||
Great Western Railway Forest of Dean Central Railway |
Blakeney Line and station closed |
References※
- ^ Mike Oakley (2003). Gloucestershire Railway Stations. Wimborne: Dovecote Press. pp. 16–17. ISBN 1-904349-24-2.
- ^ "The Main Line Severn Tunnel Junction to Gloucester". Brooksrus. Archived from the original on 8 August 2016. Retrieved 13 December 2020.
Further reading※
- Butt, "R." V. J. (October 1995). The Directory of Railway Stations: details every public and private passenger station, halt, platform and stopping place, past and present (1st ed.). Sparkford: Patrick Stephens Ltd. ISBN 978-1-85260-508-7. OCLC 60251199. OL 11956311M.
- Jowett, Alan (2000). Jowett's Nationalised Railway Atlas (1st ed.). Penryn, Cornwall: Atlantic Transport Publishers. ISBN 978-0-906899-99-1. OCLC 228266687.
External links※
51°45′38″N 2°26′56″W / 51.76068°N 2.44894°W / 51.76068; -2.44894
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