Grange Court railway station

Grange Court railway station was a junction station on the South Wales Railway in Gloucestershire (on the present day Gloucester to Newport Line) where it met the Hereford, Ross and Gloucester Railway.

Grange Court
Grange Court station as it appears today, the tracks are still connected to the main line but the platforms have been removed.
LocationNorthwood Green, Forest of Dean
England
Grid referenceSO726161
Platforms4
Other information
StatusDisused
History
Original companyGloucester and Dean Forest Railway
Pre-groupingGreat Western Railway
Post-groupingGreat Western Railway
Key dates
1 June 1855Station opens
2 November 1964Station closes
Hereford, Ross
and Gloucester Railway
Hereford Barrs Court
Hereford Barton
Rotherwas Junction
ROF Rotherwas
Dinedor tunnel
Holme Lacy
Ballingham tunnel
Ballingham
Fawley Tunnel
Fawley
River Wye
Backney Halt
Ross-on-Wye
Weston under Penyard Halt
Mitcheldean Road
Lea Line tunnel
Longhope
Blaisdon Halt
Grange Court
Grange Court Junction

History

Opened on 1 June 1855 by the Hereford, Ross and Gloucester Railway the station was taken over by the Great Western Railway in 1862 and then passed on to the Western Region of British Railways on nationalisation in 1948. Despite a local campaign to save the station led by West Gloucestershire MP Charles Loughlin[1] the station was closed after the last train on 31 October 1964.[2]

Though the actual junction remains connected to the main line, the station has now been demolished.

Station layout

The station consisted of four platforms, two on the Hereford, Ross and Gloucester Railway and the other two on the Gloucester to Newport Line. There was a shelter on each platform and platform one (the up platform on the Hereford, Ross and Gloucester Railway) had a stone station building with a cafe and booking office etc. There was a footbridge across the station, signal box, sidings and a small goods yard.[3]

References

  1. The Citizen, 21 October 1964
  2. The Citizen, 31 October 1964
  3. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 26 November 2013. Retrieved 29 November 2012.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)

Further reading

  • Mitchell, Vic; Smith, Keith (2008). Branch Lines around Ross-on-Wye. Middleton Press. figs. 62-66. ISBN 9781906008307. OCLC 370350430.
Preceding station Historical railways Following station
Oakle Street
Line open station closed
  Great Western Railway
South Wales Railway
  Westbury-on-Severn Halt
  Great Western Railway
Hereford, Ross and Gloucester Railway
  Blaisdon Halt
Line and station closed

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