Awre for Blakeney railway station

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Disused railway station in Blakeney, Gloucestershire

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[edit]

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]

 

 

References[edit]

  1. ^

    Mike Oakley (2003). Gloucestershire Railway Stations. Wimborne: Dovecote Press. pp. 16–17. ISBN 1-904349-24-2.

  2. ^ “The Main Line Severn Tunnel Junction to Gloucester”. Brooksrus. Archived from the original on 8 August 2016. Retrieved 13 December 2020.

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Coordinates:

51°45′38″N 2°26′56″W / 51.76068°N 2.44894°W / 51.76068; -2.44894