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Nailsworth railway station

Former railway station in England


Former railway station in England

FieldValue
nameNailsworth
statusDisused
imageFile:Nailsworth railway station (site), Gloucestershire (geograph 7015946).jpg
captionThe site of the station in 2021
boroughNailsworth, Stroud
countryEngland
coordinates
grid_nameGrid reference
grid_position
platforms1
originalStonehouse and Nailsworth Railway
pregroupMidland Railway
postgroupLondon, Midland and Scottish Railway
years
eventsOpened
years116 June 1947
events1Last passenger train
years28 June 1949
events2Official closure
years31966
events3closed for freight

Nailsworth railway station served the town of Nailsworth in Gloucestershire, England and was the terminus of the 5+3/4 mi long Stonehouse and Nailsworth Railway, later part of the Midland Railway.

The railway was built to meet local demand for a connection to the UK national railway network and was opened in 1867.{{Cite book |Oakley |2003

Thoughts of prosperity and expansion proved fleeting, however, and the railway company was subsumed very quickly into the Midland Railway, into whose main Bristol to Gloucester main line the branch line linked at Stonehouse. Nailsworth remained the terminus station for the branch line, and there were fewer than 10 trains a day in each direction on the line in 1910.{{Cite book

The Stonehouse and Nailsworth Railway, along with the rest of the Midland Railway, became part of the London Midland and Scottish Railway at the 1923 Grouping. Passenger services were suspended on the line as an economy measure to save fuel in June 1947, and were officially withdrawn from 8 June 1949. However, Nailsworth's goods yard remained open for goods traffic until 1966, and the station buildings and goods yard structures are still standing, the former in private residential use.{{harvnb |Oakley |2003

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