Stonehouse (Bristol Road) railway station

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Stonehouse (Bristol Road) railway station was a station in Stonehouse, England, on the Bristol and Gloucester Railway between Haresfield and Frocester. The station was called, first and unofficially, Eastington Road and then, officially, Bristol Road to distinguish it from a second station, Stonehouse (Burdett Road), which was on the Cheltenham and Great Western Union Railway, now the Golden Valley Line, between Gloucester and Swindon.

Bristol Road station was the junction for the Stonehouse and Nailsworth Railway's branch line to Nailsworth, which later had a small branch line of its own to Stroud. Unusually, the junction was to the north of Stonehouse (Bristol Road) station, and the branch line platform was a separate affair to the east of the main line station and connected by a covered pathway. The Nailsworth/Stroud branch lost its passenger services in 1947 as an economy measure, with official closure in 1949, though goods services remained until the mid 1960s.

Services to and from the Bristol Road station on the main line closed to passengers under the Beeching Axe in 1965 and to goods traffic the following year.

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Preceding station	Disused railways			Following station
Frocester Station closed		Bristol and Gloucester Railway Midland Railway		Haresfield Station closed
Ryeford Line and station closed		Stonehouse and Nailsworth Railway Midland Railway		Terminus