| Weston-sub-Edge | |
| Status: | Disused |
| Borough: | Weston-sub-Edge, Cotswold |
| Country: | England |
| Grid Name: | Grid reference |
| Platforms: | 2 |
| Original: | Great Western Railway |
| Postgroup: | Great Western Railway Western Region of British Railways |
| Years: | 1 August 1904 |
| Events: | Opened as Bretforton & Weston-sub-Edge |
| Years1: | 1 May 1907 |
| Events1: | Renamed Weston-sub-Edge |
| Years2: | 25 September 1950 |
| Events2: | Closed to goods |
| Years3: | 7 March 1960 |
| Events3: | Closed to passengers |
Weston-sub-Edge railway station is a disused station on the Honeybourne Line from to Cheltenham which served the village of Weston-sub-Edge in Gloucestershire between 1904 and 1960.
On 9 July 1859, the Oxford, Worcester and Wolverhampton Railway opened a line from to . The OW&W became the West Midland Railway in 1860 and was acquired by Great Western Railway in 1883 with a view to combining it with the Birmingham to Stratford Line to create a high-speed route from the Midlands to the South West. The GWR obtained authorisation in 1899 for the construction of a double-track line between Honeybourne and Cheltenham and this was completed in stages by 1908.
As the first station on the new line, Weston-sub-Edge was opened on 1 August 1904. Initially known as Bretforton and Weston-sub-Edge until 1 May 1907, the station was a mile from Weston-sub-Edge and 3miles from Bretforton. It was located immediately to the north of the bridge carrying the B4035 road over the line from which a footpath led down to the 'Up' platform. The 400feet platforms were equipped with the usual lamps, nameboards and fencing. A 27-lever signal box was provided on the 'Up' side to the south of the platform and it controlled a siding capable of holding 15 wagons, as well as access to the small goods yard, equipped with a small goods shed, 6-ton crane and weighbridge, which handled mainly agricultural and, in particular, meat for use in the production of animal glue. Average tonnage handled was around 3,000 tons a year in the 1920s, which began to fall off in the 1930s before picking up again in the Second World War when it reached a peak of 15,366 in 1941. The principal generator of wartime traffic was the airfield established to the north-west of the station behind the signalbox; the airfield was known as Honeybourne and its personnel used the station.
A stationmaster's house was located adjacent to the goods yard on the 'Down' side, although Weston-sub-Edge only had a stationmaster until 1932 after which the station came under the control of the stationmaster. Adjoining the house was accommodation for other staff: a ganger and platelayer. The goods yard closed on 25 September 1950, followed soon after by the signalbox on 8 October 1950. From this point, the station became a large unstaffed halt until its closure on 7 March 1960 with the withdrawal of local passenger trains on the line.
Little trace remains of Weston-sub-Edge station. The 'Up' platform building was dismantled and re-erected at on the Llangollen Railway whilst the trackbed and road bridge remain as part of a footpath and cycleway.
The Gloucestershire Warwickshire Railway aims to reopen the line through Weston-sub-Edge as part of an extension of its line to Honeybourne.[1] This might even include rebuilding and reopening the station site itself, once fundraising and support from locals nearby is obtained.[2]