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pages have been resurrected from the now defunct
www.grangecourtjunction.org.uk. They show something of the
history of a junction station on the
Great Western Railway in Britain. The research is incomplete: many
records appear to have been lost during rail privatisation, but if you
have information to add, please contact us.
Grange Court lies 7.5 miles out of Gloucester on
the Chepstow line. For many years it allowed trains on the single track
route running via Blaisdon, Longhope and Ross on Wye to Hereford to
join the main line between Gloucester and Chepstow. Markings on the
road bridge indicate that the station lies 121 miles 48 chains from
Paddington.
The only substantial surviving evidence of the
station, apart from small sections of one platform, is the original
stationmaster's house, and a building originally a lavatory and
drivers' "snug" alongside the site of the "down" platform. The branch
line and station were closed by the Beeching Axe in 1964, although the
main line continues in daily use for freight and passenger services.
Currently there are typically 28 passenger trains each way every
weekday, and 20 to 30 freight in total. Freight is dominated by steel
traffic, but also includes coal, petrol, fuel oil, lime and container
traffic.
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