Bourton-on-the-Water railway station

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Bourton-on-the-Water
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Bourton-on-the-Water railway station in 2007
General information
Location Bourton-on-the-Water, Cotswold
England
Coordinates 51°53′26″N1°45′23″W / 51.8905932°N 1.7563591°W / 51.8905932; -1.7563591
Platforms2
Other information
StatusDisused
History
Original company Bourton-on-the-Water Railway
Pre-grouping Great Western Railway
Post-groupingGreat Western Railway
Western Region of British Railways
Key dates
1 March 1862 [1] Station opens
15 October 1962Closed to passengers
7 September 1964 [2] Goods facilities withdrawn
The station in 1961 Bourton-on-the-Water Station 1972869 3933e7fe.jpg
The station in 1961

Bourton-on-the-Water railway station was a Gloucestershire railway station on the Great Western Railway's Banbury and Cheltenham Direct Railway which opened in 1881 and closed in 1964.

Contents

History

The Bourton-on-the-Water railway station was situated just to the north of the village and served surrounding villages like Lower Slaughter. It was rebuilt in 1936 by the Chief Architect to the Great Western Railway, Percy Emerson Culverhouse. The station was host to a GWR camp coach in 1935, 1938 and 1939. [3]

The station passed on to the Western Region of British Railways on nationalisation in 1948. The last passenger service to the station was on 13 October 1962. Goods services between the station and Cheltenham ceased in 1962 with the service between Bourton and Kingham closing a year later.

Stationmasters

  • George Spreckley ca. 1863
  • Edward Jackson Cuff 1864 - 1866 [4] (afterwards station master at Moreton-in-Marsh)
  • Charles William Caldicot 1868 - 1871
  • George Pope ca. 1879 ca. 1891
  • Robert Eaton from 1893 [5]
  • William L. Mills until 1897
  • George Christopher Anney 1897 [6] - 1904 [7] (formerly station master at Leckhampton, afterwards station master at Moreton-in-Marsh)
  • William Henry Penson 1905 [8] - 1917 (afterwards station master at Brinscombe)
  • F.C. Price
  • William Albert Mace 1922 - 1929 [9]
  • N.J. Fletcher from 1929
  • W. May until 1934 [10]
  • H.E. Spencer from 1934

Present day

Following closure, the station was used as a highways depot by Gloucestershire County Council. The (last) station building, built in the 1930s, was demolished in 2011.

The Gloucestershire Warwickshire Railway had considered reusing the building at its Broadway railway station, but later changed its mind. [11]

Preceding station Disused railways Following station
Notgrove
Line and station closed		  Great Western Railway
Banbury and Cheltenham Direct Railway 		  Stow-on-the-Wold
Line and station closed

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References

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  11. ↑ Deshmukh, Anita (28 June 2007). "New station for Broadway?". Cotswold Journal. Archived from the original on 25 August 2020. Retrieved 25 August 2020.

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