Blockley railway station

Last updated

Blockley
Blockley railway station 1972848 1377e09f.jpg
The station in 1962
General information
Location Blockley, Gloucestershire
England
Coordinates 52°01′49″N1°43′58″W / 52.0304°N 1.7328°W / 52.0304; -1.7328
Grid reference SP184369
Platforms2
Other information
StatusDisused
History
Original company Oxford, Worcester and Wolverhampton Railway
Pre-grouping Great Western Railway
Key dates
4 June 1853 (1853-06-04)Opened
3 January 1966 (1966-01-03)Closed

Blockley railway station served the village of Blockley, Gloucestershire, England from 1853 to 1966 on the Oxford, Worcester and Wolverhampton Railway.

Contents

History

The station opened on 4 June 1853 by the Oxford, Worcester and Wolverhampton Railway. It closed on 3 January 1966 [1] and was demolished shortly after. [2]

Related Research Articles

Blockley is a village, civil parish and ecclesiastical parish in the Cotswold district of Gloucestershire, England, about 3 miles (5 km) northwest of Moreton-in-Marsh. Until 1931 Blockley was an exclave of Worcestershire.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Blakedown</span> Human settlement in England

Blakedown is a village in the Wyre Forest District lying along the A456 in the north of the county of Worcestershire, England. Following enclosures and the arrival of the railway, it developed both agriculturally and industrially during the 19th century. Due to its transport links, it now serves mainly as a dormitory for the neighbouring town of Kidderminster and for the cities of Birmingham and Worcester.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Evesham railway station</span> Railway station in Worcestershire, England

Evesham railway station is in the town of Evesham in Worcestershire, England. It is between Honeybourne and Pershore stations on the Cotswold Line between Oxford and Hereford via Worcester and Great Malvern. It is operated by Great Western Railway. Trains to London Paddington take about 1 hour 45 minutes. It is one of the few railway stations in the United Kingdom to have shown a steady decline in use since 2004.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Hanborough railway station</span> Railway station in England

Hanborough railway station is a railway station in the village of Long Hanborough in Oxfordshire, England, serving the village and surrounding district. As a result of the Cotswold Line being singled the former up platform is the only one now in use for both up and down trains. It is served by Great Western Railway trains between London Paddington and Worcester Shrub Hill. It is also the nearest station to the towns of Woodstock and Witney.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Long Hanborough</span> Human settlement in England

Long Hanborough is a village in Hanborough civil parish, about 4 miles (6.4 km) northeast of Witney in West Oxfordshire, England. The village is the major settlement in Hanborough parish. The 2011 Census recorded the parish's population as 2,630.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Moreton-in-Marsh railway station</span> Railway station in Gloucestershire, England

Moreton-in-Marsh railway station is a railway station serving the town of Moreton-in-Marsh in Gloucestershire, England. It is on the Cotswold Line between Kingham and Honeybourne stations. The station and all passenger trains serving it are operated by Great Western Railway.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Stourbridge Junction railway station</span> Railway station in the West Midlands, England

Stourbridge Junction is one of two railway stations serving the town of Stourbridge, in the Metropolitan Borough of Dudley in the West Midlands, England. It lies on the Birmingham to Worcester via Kidderminster Line and is the junction for the Stourbridge Town Branch Line, said to be the shortest operational branch line in Europe. The other station serving Stourbridge is Stourbridge Town at the end of the branch line.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Droitwich Spa railway station</span> Railway station in Worcestershire, England

Droitwich Spa railway station serves the town of Droitwich Spa in Worcestershire, England. It is located just to the south-west of Droitwich Spa Junction of the Worcester to Leamington Spa Line and the Worcester to Birmingham New Street line. The station is managed by West Midlands Trains, who also operate all trains serving it.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Littleton and Badsey railway station</span> Former railway station in Worcestershire, England

Littleton and Badsey railway station was a station on the Great Western Railway's Oxford, Worcester and Wolverhampton line, near the town of Evesham, Worcestershire in England. It was located in Blackminster, and served the villages of Badsey and the Littletons.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Honeybourne railway station</span> Railway station in Worcestershire, England

Honeybourne railway station serves the village of Honeybourne in Worcestershire, England. Opened in 1853, it is on the Cotswold Line and was formerly a busy junction with five platform faces, also serving trains on the Great Western Railway's Honeybourne Line between Cheltenham Spa and Stratford-upon-Avon, which formed part of a strategic route between the West Midlands and the West of England.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Neen Sollars railway station</span> Former railway station in Shropshire, England

Neen Sollars railway station was a station on the Tenbury & Bewdley railway in Neen Sollars, Shropshire, England. The station opened on 13 August 1864. A second staggered platform was opened in 1878, reached via a board crossing. This platform was taken out of use on 22 August 1954, the same date on which the station's signal box closed. The station became unstaffed in July 1961 and closed for passenger use on 1 August 1962, although goods traffic continued until January 1964.

The Oxford, Worcester and Wolverhampton Railway (OW&WR) was a railway company in England. It built a line from Wolvercot Junction near Oxford to Worcester, Stourbridge, Dudley and Wolverhampton, as well as some branches.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Pershore railway station</span> Railway station in Worcestershire, England

Pershore railway station is a railway station serving both the town of Pershore and village of Pinvin in Worcestershire, England. The station is on a single-track section of the Cotswold Line. The station and all trains serving it are operated by Great Western Railway.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Tipton Five Ways railway station</span> Former railway station in Tipton, England

Tipton Five Ways railway station was a station built by the Oxford, Worcester and Wolverhampton Railway, serving the town of Tipton in the western section near the border with Coseley for 88 years from 1853.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Princes End and Coseley railway station</span> Railway station in Princes End, Sandwell, England from 1853 to 1962

Princes End and Coseley railway station was a station built by the Oxford, Worcester and Wolverhampton Railway in 1853. It was one of two stations in Princes End, but was situated closer to Coseley, which influenced the decision in 1936 to add the 'and Coseley' tag on the end of the station name. It was situated on the Oxford-Worcester-Wolverhampton Line. The station eventually closed in 1962, along with the passenger services along the line, although the line remained open to goods trains until 22 September 1968.

The West Midland Railway was an early British railway company. It was formed on 1 July 1860 by a merger of several older railway companies and amalgamated with the Great Western Railway on 1 August 1863. It was the successor to the Oxford, Worcester and Wolverhampton Railway (OWWR).

The Banbury and Cheltenham Direct Railway (B&CDR) was a railway company through the Cotswolds in England that built a line between points near Banbury and Cheltenham. Its principal objective, as well as a general rural rail service, was the conveyance of iron ore from the East Midlands to South Wales.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Adlestrop railway station</span> Disused railway station in Adlestrop, Cotswold

Adlestrop railway station was a railway station which served the village of Adlestrop in Gloucestershire, England, between 1853 and 1966. It was on what is now called the Cotswold Line. The station was immortalised in the poem "Adlestrop" by Edward Thomas after his train stopped there on 24 June 1914.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Yarnton railway station</span> Former railway station in Oxfordshire, England

Yarnton Junction was a three-platform station serving the village of Yarnton, Oxfordshire. It was built in 1861 at the junction of the Oxford, Worcester and Wolverhampton Railway and Witney Railway, north of Oxford. British Railways closed the station to passengers in 1962 and it was demolished c. 1965.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Chipping Campden railway station</span> Former railway station in England

Chipping Campden, or for most of its existence simply Campden, is a closed railway station on the Cotswold Line, which served the town of Chipping Campden in Gloucestershire, England.

References

  1. M E Quick, Railway Passenger Stations in England Scotland and Wales—A Chronology, The Railway and Canal Historical Society, 2002, p. 80
  2. "Blockley railway station (site),... © Nigel Thompson cc-by-sa/2.0 :: Geograph Britain and Ireland". Geograph. Retrieved 23 June 2020.
Preceding station Historical railways Following station
Chipping Campden
Line open, station closed
  Oxford, Worcester and Wolverhampton Railway   Moreton-in-Marsh
Line and station open