Awre for Blakeney railway station explained

Awre for Blakeney
Status:Disused
Borough:Blakeney, Gloucestershire, Forest of Dean
Country:England
Original:South Wales Railway
Pregroup:Great Western Railway
Postgroup:Great Western Railway
Years:19 December 1851
Events:Station opened
Years1:10 August 1959
Events1: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

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

Trains still pass the site on the Gloucester to Newport Line.[2]

 

 

Further reading

 

External links

51.7607°N -2.4489°W

Notes and References

  1. Book: Mike Oakley . Gloucestershire Railway Stations . 2003 . Dovecote Press . Wimborne . 1-904349-24-2 . 16–17.
  2. Web site: The Main Line Severn Tunnel Junction to Gloucester . Brooksrus . 13 December 2020 . 8 August 2016 . https://web.archive.org/web/20160808201917/http://booksrus.me.uk/gn/page%2051.html . live .