Abbeydore railway station

Infobox UK disused station
name = Abbeydore


caption =
locale = Abbeydore
borough = Herefordshire
line = Golden Valley Railway
manager =
owner = Great Western Railway
platforms = ?
latitude =
longitude =
gridref =
years = September 1 1881
events = Station opens
years1 = October 22 1883
events1 = Station closes
years2 = November 17 1883
events2 = Station reopens
years3 = July 2 1885
events3 = Station closes
years4 = August 19 1885
events4 = Station reopens
years5 = April 20 1898
events5 = Station closes
years6 = May 1 1901
events6 = Station reopens
years7 = 15 December 1941
events7 = Station closes

Abbeydore railway station was a station in the English county of Herefordshire. It was located on the Great Western Railway branch line linking Pontrilas and Hay-on-Wye. The area is known as the Golden Valley.

History

Opened by the Golden Valley Railway in 1881, the station closed and re-opened three times in the next twenty years. Becoming part of the Great Western Railway during the Grouping of 1923, it closed for the last time in 1941.

Roman Road

In 1901 traces of the Roman road which passed from Wroxeter to Abergavenny were found at the station. [http://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Gazetteer/Periods/Roman/Topics/Engineering/roads/Britain/_Texts/CODROM/2*.html#10}]

References

*cite book|author=R.V.J.Butt, |title= The Directory of Railway Stations |publisher=Patrick Stephens Ltd |year=1995 ISBN 1 85260 508 1
*cite book|author=A. Jowett, |title= Jowett's Nationalised Railway Atlas |publisher=Atlantic Publishing |year=2000 ISBN 0 906899 99 0

Former Services
Disused Rail Start