Awre for Blakeney railway station
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.[1]
The site today
[edit]Trains still pass the site on the Gloucester to Newport Line.[2]
| 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
[edit]- ^ 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
[edit]- 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
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