Adlestrop railway station

Adlestrop railway station

Infobox UK disused station
name = Adlestrop



caption =
manager = Great Western Railway
locale = Moreton in Marsh
borough = Gloucestershire
line = Oxford, Worcester and Wolverhampton Railway
manager =
owner = Great Western Railway
platforms =
latitude =
longitude =
gridref =
years = 4 June 1853
events = Station opens as Addlestrop and Stow Road
years1 = 1 March 1862
events1 = Station renamed Addlestrop
years2 = 1 July 1883
events2 = Station renamed Adlestrop
years3 = 3 January 1966
events3 = Station closes

Adlestrop railway station was a railway station serving the village of Adlestrop in Gloucestershire, England. It was located on what is now known as the Cotswold Line. The station was immortalised the poet Edward Thomas when his train made an unscheduled stop there shortly before the First World War [ http://www.poetsgraves.co.uk/Classic%20Poems/Thomas%20E/adlestrop.htm ] .

History

Opened by the Oxford, Worcester and Wolverhampton Railway, it became part of the West Midlands Railway then was absorbed by the Great Western Railway. The station then passed on to the Western Region of British Railwayson nationalisation in 1948. It was then closed by the British Railways Board.

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The site today

Trains on the Cotswold Line pass the site in the Evenlode Valley. The station house is lived in but the trackside buildings were removed some years ago. A bench seat bearing a plaque with Edward Thomas' poem engraved on it was transferred to a bus shelter in the village [ http://www.astoft2.co.uk/glos/adlestrop.htm ] .

References

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* ISBN 0-7110- 1108-7
* [http://www.greatwestern.org.uk/stat_1.htm#adles Signal Box Diagram]


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