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]
Gloucester–Newport line |
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Railways and Canals of the Forest of Dean |
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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]
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]
External links[edit]
Coordinates:
51°45′38″N 2°26′56″W / 51.76068°N 2.44894°W
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