Area Forest of Dean Post-grouping Great Western Railway 10 August 1959 Station closed | Pre-grouping Great Western Railway 19 December 1851 Station opened Original company South Wales Railway | |
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Place Blakeney, Gloucestershire People also search for Bullo Cross Halt railway station, Bilson Halt railway station, Coronation Chair | ||
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
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History
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]