Awre for Blakeney railway station

Awre for Blakeney
Location
Place	Blakeney, Gloucestershire
Area	Forest of Dean
Operations
Original company	South Wales Railway
Pre-grouping	Great Western Railway
Post-grouping	Great Western Railway
History
19 December 1851	Station opened
10 August 1959	Station closed
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Awre for Blakeney railway station is a closed railway station situated in Gloucestershire, England. As well as the village of Awre it served the town of Blakeney, Gloucestershire

History

A 1911 Railway Clearing House map of railways in the vicinity of Awre

Gloucester to Newport Line
Legend
Cross Country Route Gloucester River Severn Ledbury and Gloucester Railway Oakle Street Grange Court Hereford, Ross and Gloucester Railway Westbury-on-Severn Halt Newnham Ruddle Road Halt Severn and Wye Railway Awre for Blakeney Forest of Dean Central Railway Gatcombe Severn Railway Bridge Severn Bridge Sharpness Branch Line Lydney Junction | Lydney Lydney Harbour Branch Dean Forest Railway Woolaston Wye Valley Railway Tutshill for Beachley Halt Chepstow East Chepstow Railway Bridge over River Wye England Wales Chepstow M48 motorway across Severn Bridge Bristol and South Wales Union Railway Portskewett (1850–1863) ("Portskewett Junction" 1863–1886) Portskewett(1863–1964) South Wales Main Line via Severn Tunnel Sudbrook Tunnel Pumps Caerwent Training Area Caldicot Severn Tunnel Junction M4 motorway Undy Halt Magor Llanwern steelworks Llanwern Uskmouth Power Station Welsh Marches Line River Usk Monmouthshire Railway Newport South Wales Main Line

Railways and Canals of the Forest of Dean
Railways legend Waterways legend
Hereford, Ross and Gloucester Railway Mitcheldean Road Ross and Monmouth Railway Hereford, Ross and Gloucester Railway Lydbrook Junction x20px Mitcheldean Road and Forest of Dean Jn Ry Drybrook Quarry Drybrook Halt Nailbridge Halt Lower Lydbrook Steam Mills Crossing Halt Upper Lydbrook Churchway Colliery Whimsey Halt Mineral Loop Drybrook Road Coleford Railway Serridge Platform Cinderford New Wimberry Quarry Whitecliff Quarry Speech House Road Bilson Halt Bicslade Tramroad Ruspidge Halt Bicslade Wharf Staple Edge Halt Eastern United Colliery Coleford (CR) Upper Soudley Halt Coleford (S&WR) Bullo Cross Halt Gloucester to Newport Line Milkwall Newnham Parkhill Colliery Ruddle Road Halt New Fancy Colliery Howbeach Colliery Parkend Forest of Dean Central Railway Whitecroft Awre for Blakeney Tufts Junction & Mineral Loop Norchard River Severn Middle Forge Junction Lydney Town Severn Railway Bridge Severn Bridge Gloucester and Sharpness Canal St Mary's Halt Sharpness Lydney Junction Sharpness Docks Lydney Sharpness Branch Line Upper Forge Lydney Harbour Pidcock's Canal x20px Lydney Canal Lower Forge Gloucester to Newport Line River Severn

Forest of Dean Central Railway
Legend Gloucester to Newport Line Awre for Blakeney Blakeney Goods Station A48 road Howbeach Colliery x20px Severn and Wye Railway New Fancy Colliery

Opened by the South Wales Railway, the station was amalgamated into the Great Western Railway and this in turn was nationalised into British Railways on 1 January 1948. From 1868, it was a junction for the freight-only Forest of Dean Central Railway, and it was sometimes shown in timetables as "Awre Junction". The Forest of Dean line closed in 1949, though it was used as a siding to store wagons for some years afterwards. Awre station was closed to passenger and goods traffic in 1959, though a coal depot remained open until 1961.

The site today

Trains still pass the site on the Gloucester to Newport Line.[1]

 

Preceding station	Historical railways			Following station
Newnham Line open station closed		Great Western Railway South Wales Railway		Lydney
		Great Western Railway Forest of Dean Central Railway		Blakeney Line and station closed

 

 

External links

• Awre station on navigable 1947 O. S. map