Drybrook Road railway station

Drybrook Road
Present day station sign in the Forest of Dean
General information
Location	Drybrook, Forest of Dean England
Coordinates	51°49′40″N2°32′00″W / 51.8279°N 2.5333°W / 51.8279; -2.5333
Grid reference	SO633144
Other information
Status	Disused
History
Original company	Severn and Wye Railway
Pre-grouping	Severn and Wye and Severn Bridge Railway
Post-grouping	Severn and Wye and Severn Bridge Railway
Key dates
23 September 1875	opened
8 July 1929	closed
Location

Drybrook Road is a closed station on the Cinderford to Coleford direct railway line in the Forest of Dean in Gloucestershire, near the village of Drybrook. The former station was on the former Severn and Wye Railway system. It opened in 1875 and closed in 1929. ^{[1] [2]}

In the early 20th century the station was used to load timber from the local forest. ^[3] In 1903 a coal train was involved in an accident at Drybrook. ^[4]

Drybrook Road station sign.

v t e Railways and Canals of the Forest of Dean
Railways legend Waterways legend
Hereford, Ross and Gloucester Railway Mitcheldean Road Hereford, Ross and Gloucester Railway Mitcheldean Road & Forest of Dean Jn Ry Drybrook Quarry Ross and Monmouth Railway Drybrook Halt Lydbrook Junction Nailbridge Halt Steam Mills Crossing Halt Lower Lydbrook Churchway Colliery Upper Lydbrook Whimsey Halt Mineral Loop Drybrook Road Coleford Railway Serridge Platform Cinderford New Wimberry Quarry Whitecliff Quarry Bilson Halt Speech House Road Ruspidge Halt Bicslade Tramroad Staple Edge Halt Bicslade Wharf Eastern United Colliery Coleford (CR) Upper Soudley Halt Coleford (S&WR) Bullo Cross Halt Gloucester– Newport line Milkwall Newnham Parkhill Colliery Ruddle Road Halt New Fancy Colliery Howbeach Colliery Parkend Forest of Dean Central Railway Whitecroft Awre for Blakeney Tufts Junction Mineral Loop Norchard River Severn Middle Forge Jcn Lydney Town Severn Railway Bridge Severn Bridge Gloucester and Sharpness Canal St Mary's Halt Sharpness Lydney Junction Sharpness Docks Lydney Sharpness branch line Upper Forge Lydney Harbour Pidcock's Canal Lydney Canal Lower Forge Gloucester– Newport line River Severn

Services

Preceding station	Disused railways			Following station
Serridge Platform Line and station closed		Severn and Wye Railway		Cinderford New Line and station closed
				Upper Lydbrook Line and station closed

References

1. "Drybrook Road". Forest of Dean Railways. Archived from the original on 21 August 2020. Retrieved 21 August 2020.
2. Railway Passenger Stations by M.Quick page 160
3. "Mystery Bridge". Edward Hunt's Forest of Dean Miscellany. Archived from the original on 14 August 2019. Retrieved 21 August 2020.
4. "Accident Returns: Extract for the Accident at Drybrook Road on 5th February 1903". Railways Archive. Archived from the original on 29 June 2013. Retrieved 21 August 2020.