Whitebrook Halt railway station explained

Whitebrook Halt
Status:Disused
Borough:Whitebrook, Monmouthshire
Country:Wales
Platforms:1
Postgroup:Great Western Railway
Years:February 1927
Events:Opened
Years1:January 1959
Events1:Closed

Whitebrook Halt was a request stop on the former Wye Valley Railway. It was opened in 1927 to serve the village of Whitebrook. It was closed in 1959 when passenger services were withdrawn from the Wye Valley Railway.[1] The station came too late to make full use out of the village's industry. Whitebrook had once been home to three paper mills. However, paper making ceased in Whitebrook in the early 1880s, only four years after the line opened in 1876. The halt was not built until long after the closure of the paper mills.[2]

51.7577°N -2.6702°W

Notes and References

  1. Book: Quick, M. E.. Railway passenger stations in England, Scotland and Wales – a chronology. 2002. Railway and Canal Historical Society. Richmond. 454. 931112387.
  2. B. M. Handley and R. Dingwall, The Wye Valley Railway and the Coleford Branch, 1982,