- Woodchester railway station
Woodchester railway station served the villages of
Woodchester and Amberley inGloucestershire ,England . It was on the 9.3km-longStonehouse and Nailsworth Railway , later part of theMidland Railway .The station opened six months after the railway and its other stations, on 1 July 1867. The delay was allegedly due to resistance from objectors who thought the provision of a station might encourage attendance at a nearby Catholic chapel. [Cite book
author = Mike Oakley
title = "Gloucestershire Railway Stations"
edition = 2003
publisher = Dovecote Press, Wimborne
ISBN = 1 904349 24 2
page = pp152–153] When the station was provided, it was given scruffy wooden buildings, unlike the substantial stone-built stations elsewhere on the line, a sign of the influence of the Midland Railway and the financial problems of the Stonehouse and Nailsworth Railway.Woodchester was a busy station with tourists visiting Amberley, which was identified with "Enderley" in the novel
John Halifax, Gentleman . It also had a large volume of goods traffic.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 Passenger services were suspended on the line as an economy measure to save fuel in June 1947, and were officially withdrawn from 8 June 1949. Woodchester remained open for goods traffic until 1964. The line itself closed for goods traffic in 1966. The station buildings at Woodchester have all been demolished, though the station-master's house remains and the line of the track is used as a pedestrian and cycle path between Dudbridge andNailsworth . [Cite book
author = Mike Oakley
title = "Gloucestershire Railway Stations"
edition = 2003
publisher = Dovecote Press, Wimborne
ISBN = 1 904349 24 2
page = p153]ervices
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