Grange Court railway station

Grange Court
Grange Court station as it appears today, the tracks are still connected to the main line but the platforms have been removed.
Location
Place	Northwood Green
Area	Forest of Dean
Operations
Original company	Hereford, Ross & Gloucester Railway
Post-grouping	Great Western Railway
Platforms	4
History
1 June 1855	Station opens
2 November 1964	Station closes
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Hereford, Ross and Gloucester Railway
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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]

Though the actual junction remains connected to the main line, the station has now been demolished. A website giving much pictorial history is to be found at grangecourtjunction.co.uk

Station layout

The station consisted of four platforms, two on the Hereford, Ross and Gloucester Railway and the other two on the Gloucester to Newport Line. 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.^[3]

References

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

Coordinates: 51°50′35″N 2°23′57″W / 51.8431°N 2.3992°W / 51.8431; -2.3992