Holme Lacy railway station

Holme Lacy
General information
Location	Hereford and Worcester
Coordinates	52.0168°N 2.6518°W / 52.0168; -2.6518
Owned by	Great Western Railway
Line(s)	Hereford, Ross and Gloucester Railway
Platforms	1
Key dates
1 June 1855	Station opens
2 November 1964	Station closes

Hereford, Ross and Gloucester Railway
Welsh Marches line (S&HR) Cotswold Line (OW&WR) Hereford, Hay & Brecon Rly Hereford Barrs Court Hereford Barton River Wye Rotherwas Junction ROF Rotherwas Welsh Marches line NA&HR) Dinedor tunnel Holme Lacy Ballingham tunnel Ballingham Ballingham Bridge across the River Wye Fawley Tunnel Fawley River Wye Backney Halt River Wye Ross-on-Wye Ross and Monmouth Railway Weston under Penyard Halt Mitcheldean Road & Forest of Dean Junction Railway Mitcheldean Road Lea Line tunnel Longhope Blaisdon Halt Gloucester–Newport line (SWR) Grange Court Grange Court Junction Gloucester–Newport line (G&DFR)

Holme Lacy railway station is a disused wood built railway station that served the village of Holme Lacy in Herefordshire. One of the original two stations between Hereford and Ross, along with Fawley, Holme Lacy opened with the line on 1 June 1855 it was located on the Great Western Railway line linking Ross-on-Wye and Hereford. The platform remains and the station building has been demolished to foundation level.

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  The rusting railings on the disused platform in 2006.
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  Another view of the platform, again in 2006.

Further reading

• Mitchell, Vic; Smith, Keith (2008). Branch Lines around Ross-on-Wye. Middleton Press. figs. 9-12. ISBN 9781906008307. OCLC 370350430.

External links

• Station site today
• Holme Lacy on a navigable 1946 O. S. map

Former Services

Preceding station		Disused railways		Following station
Ballingham		Hereford, Ross and Gloucester Railway British Railways		Hereford