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Mitcheldean Road and Forest of Dean Junction Railway

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Mitcheldean Road & Forest of Dean Junction Railway

The Mitcheldean Road & Forest of Dean Junction Railway (MR&FoDJR) was a railway which ran for 3 14 miles (5.2 km) from the former Mitcheldean Road railway station on the Hereford, Ross and Gloucester Railway to a junction at Whimsey near Cinderford.

On 6 August 1880 the company was acquired by the Great Western Railway which completed the line but never opened it to traffic.

The line was later lifted beyond Drybook, although a small section between Drybrook Halt and Drybrook Quarry was relaid in 1928. Drybrook Halt was the northern terminus of a GWR railmotor service from Newnham which ran from 1907 to 1930. The line was closed again in 1952.

A short section of the trackbed at the northern end is used by the narrow gauge Lea Bailey Light Railway.

References

Mitcheldean Road & Forest of Dean Junction Railway Wikipedia