Symonds Yat railway station

Symonds Yat
Symonds Yat Tunnel with train emerging 1895
General information
Location	Symonds Yat, Herefordshire England
Coordinates	51°50′18″N2°38′19″W / 51.8384°N 2.6387°W / 51.8384; -2.6387
Grid reference	SO561157
Platforms	2
Other information
Status	Disused
History
Pre-grouping	Ross and Monmouth Railway
Post-grouping	Great Western Railway
Key dates
4 August 1873	Opened
5 January 1959	Closed
Location

Symonds Yat railway station is a disused railway station on the Ross and Monmouth Railway constructed on the banks of the River Wye in Symonds Yat East.

v t e Ross and Monmouth Railway
Legend
mi-ch Hereford, Ross and Gloucester Railway 0-00 Ross-on-Wye Hereford, Ross and Gloucester Railway 3-12 Walford Halt 4-10 Kerne Bridge River Wye Lydbrook tunnel River Wye Severn and Wye Railway 5-40 Lydbrook Junction Symonds Yat tunnel 7-50 Symonds Yat Heref, England Mon, Wales border 10-59 Hadnock Halt 12-31 Monmouth Mayhill Wye Valley Railway and Coleford Railway River Wye 13-10 Monmouth Troy Coleford, Monmouth, Usk and Pontypool Railway

Opened in 1873, it consisted of two platforms and a timber station building on the down platform, it closed in 1959 with the closure of the line. ^{[1] [2]} The railways were at first used as a quick means of bringing the boats back from Chepstow. ^[3]

Symonds Yat station site, now buried under a car park

A camping coach was positioned here by the Western Region from 1953 to 1958; an early form of self-catering accommodation which used converted redundant railway carriages for occupation by holidaymakers who could arrive and depart by train. ^[4] Today the station site has long been levelled but the foundations of the station building and platforms remain and the area now forms a car parking area for a local hotel inn.

Preceding station	Disused railways			Following station
Hadnock Halt		Ross and Monmouth Railway British Railways		Lydbrook Junction

References

1. Handley, Brian M.; Dingwall, Rod (1982). The Wye Valley Railway and the Coleford Branch. Oakwood Press. ISBN   978-0-85361-530-9.
2. Parkhouse, BRHIC, Vol 1, pp. 188–191, 6: The Ross & Monmouth Railway.
3. Kissack, Keith E. (1975). Monmouth: The Making of a County Town. London: Phillimore & Co. p. 255. ISBN   978-0-85033-209-4.
4. McRae, Andrew (1998). British Railways Camping Coach Holidays: A Tour of Britain in the 1950s and 1960s. Scenes from the Past. Vol. 30 (Part Two). Foxline. p. 95. ISBN   1-870119-53-3.

• Parkhouse, Neil (2013). "6: The Ross & Monmouth Railway". West Gloucester & Wye Valley Lines. British Railway History In Colour. Vol. 1. Lydney: Lightmoor Press. pp. 167–200. ISBN   9781899889 76 1.

External links

• Station on 1952 OS Map
• Article title Photograph of the station circa 1910]
• Photograph of the station site today