Holme Lacy railway station

Holme Lacy
The overgrown platform in 2006.
Location
Place	Holme Lacy
Area	Hereford and Worcester
Coordinates	52°01′00″N 2°39′06″W / 52.0168°N 2.6518°W / 52.0168; -2.6518Coordinates: 52°01′00″N 2°39′06″W / 52.0168°N 2.6518°W / 52.0168; -2.6518
Grid reference	SO552356
Operations
Original company	Hereford, Ross and Gloucester Railway
Post-grouping	Great Western Railway
Platforms	1
History
1 June 1855	Station opens
2 November 1964	Station closes
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Hereford, Ross and Gloucester Railway
Welsh Marches line (S&HR) Cotswold Line (OW&WR) Hereford, Hay and Brecon Railway Hereford Barrs Court Hereford Barton River Wye Rotherwas Junction ROF Rotherwas Welsh Marches line (NA&HR) Dinedor tunnel Holme Lacy Ballingham tunnel Ballingham River Wye (Ballingham Bridge) 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 Grange Court Grange Court Junction Gloucester–Newport line

Holme Lacy railway station is a disused wood built railway station that served the village of Holme Lacy in Herefordshire. One of the original two stations between Hereford and Ross, along with Fawley, Holme Lacy opened with the line on 1 June 1855 it was located on the Great Western Railway line linking Ross-on-Wye and Hereford. The platform remains and the station building has been demolished to foundation level.

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  The rusting railings on the disused platform in 2006.
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  Another view of the platform, again in 2006.

Further reading

• Mitchell, Vic; Smith, Keith (2008). Branch Lines around Ross-on-Wye. Middleton Press. figs. 9-12. ISBN 9781906008307. OCLC 370350430. 

External links

• Station site today
• Holme Lacy on a navigable 1946 O. S. map