Grange Court railway station

Grange Court
Grange Court station as it appears today but the platforms have been removed.
General information
Location	Northwood Green, Forest of Dean England
Grid reference	SO726161
Platforms	4
Other information
Status	Disused
History
Original company	Gloucester and Dean Forest Railway
Pre-grouping	Great Western Railway
Post-grouping	Great Western Railway
Key dates
1 June 1855	Station opens
2 November 1964	Station closes

v t e Gloucester–Newport line
Legend
Cross Country Route Gloucester River Severn Ledbury and Gloucester Railway Oakle Street Grange Court Hereford, Ross & Gloucester Rly Westbury-on-Severn Halt Newnham Ruddle Road Halt Forest of Dean Railway Awre for Blakeney Forest of Dean Central Railway Gatcombe Severn Railway Bridge Severn Bridge Sharpness branch line Lydney Junction │ Lydney Lydney Harbour Branch Dean Forest Railway (Severn and Wye Railway) Woolaston Wye Valley Railway Tutshill for Beachley Halt Chepstow East Chepstow Railway Bridge over River Wye England Wales Chepstow M48 motorway across Severn Bridge Bristol & South Wales Union Rly Portskewett (1863–1964) ("Portskewett Junction" 1863–1886) Portskewett (1850–1863) South Wales Main Line via Severn Tunnel Sudbrook Tunnel Pumps Caerwent Training Area Caldicot Severn Tunnel Junction M4 motorway Undy Halt Magor Llanwern steelworks Llanwern Uskmouth Power Station Welsh Marches line River Usk Monmouthshire Railway Newport South Wales Main Line

v t e Hereford, Ross and Gloucester Railway
Legend
Welsh Marches line (S&HR) Cotswold Line (OW&WR) Hereford, Hay & Brecon Rly Hereford Barrs Court Hereford Barton River Wye Rotherwas Junction ROF Rotherwas Welsh Marches line NA&HR ) Dinedor tunnel Holme Lacy Ballingham tunnel Ballingham Ballingham Bridge across the River Wye Fawley Tunnel Fawley River Wye Backney Halt River Wye Ross-on-Wye Ross and Monmouth Railway Weston under Penyard Halt Mitcheldean Road & Forest of Dean Junction Railway Mitcheldean Road Lea Line tunnel Longhope Blaisdon Halt Gloucester–Newport line ( SWR ) Grange Court Grange Court Junction Gloucester–Newport line ( G&DFR )

Grange Court railway station was a junction station on the South Wales Railway in Gloucestershire (on the present day Gloucester to Newport Line) where it met the Hereford, Ross and Gloucester Railway.

History

Opened on 1 June 1855 by the Hereford, Ross and Gloucester Railway the station was taken over by the Great Western Railway in 1862 and then passed on to the Western Region of British Railways on nationalisation in 1948. Despite a local campaign to save the station led by West Gloucestershire MP Charles Loughlin ^[1] the station was closed after the last train on 31 October 1964. ^[2]

The station has now been demolished.

Station layout

The station consisted of four platforms, two on the Hereford, Ross and Gloucester Railway ^[3] and the other two on the Gloucester to Newport Line. ^[4] There was a shelter on each platform and platform one (the up platform on the Hereford, Ross and Gloucester Railway) had a stone station building with a cafe and booking office etc. There was a footbridge across the station, signal box, sidings and a small goods yard. ^[5]

References

1. The Citizen, 21 October 1964
2. The Citizen, 31 October 1964
3. Parkhouse, Neil (2013). "4. Over Junction to Grange Court Junction". West Gloucester & Wye Valley Lines. British Railway History In Colour. Vol. 1. Lydney: Lightmoor Press. pp. 75–80. ISBN   9781899889 76 1.
4. Parkhouse, BRHIC, Vol 1, pp. 277–280, 9. Chepstow to Grange Court Junction.
5. "Grange Court Junction: A visual history". Archived from the original on 26 November 2013. Retrieved 29 November 2012.

Further reading

• Mitchell, Vic; Smith, Keith (2008). Branch Lines around Ross-on-Wye. Middleton Press. figs. 62-66. ISBN   9781906008307. OCLC   370350430.

External links

• Grange Court on navigable 1946 O. S. map

Preceding station	Historical railways			Following station
Oakle Street Line open station closed		Great Western Railway South Wales Railway		Westbury-on-Severn Halt
		Great Western Railway Hereford, Ross and Gloucester Railway		Blaisdon Halt Line and station closed

51°50′35″N2°23′57″W / 51.8431°N 2.3992°W / 51.8431; -2.3992