Place Ross-on-Wye Pre-grouping Great Western Railway 1 June 1855 Opened Platforms in use 3 | Grid reference SO605243 Post-grouping Great Western Railway 2 November 1964 closed for passengers | |
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Address Wye Valley Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty (AONB), Ross-on-Wye HR9 7AA, United Kingdom Original company Hereford, Ross and Gloucester Railway Similar Holme Lacy railway st, Mitcheldean Road railway st, Ballingham railway station, Symonds Yat railway station, Fawley (HR&GR) railway st | ||
Ross-on-Wye railway station is a former junction railway station on the Hereford, Ross and Gloucester Railway constructed just to the north of the Herefordshire town of Ross-on-Wye. It was the terminus of the Ross and Monmouth Railway which joined the Hereford, Ross and Gloucester Railway just south of the station.
History
The station was opened on 1 June 1855 by the Hereford, Ross and Gloucester Railway four years after line had received parliamentary consent to be constructed.
On 29 July 1862 the line was amalgamated with the Great Western Railway and in 1869 the line was converted from broad gauge to standard gauge in a five-day period. In 1873 the Ross and Monmouth Railway to Monmouth via Lydbrook was opened and it terminated at the station. The station then passed on to the Western Region of British Railways on nationalisation in 1948. A line from Ross-on-Wye to Tewkesbury was authorised by parliament in 1856 but was never built.
The lines to Ross closed in stages. On the Ross and Monmouth Railway passenger services were withdrawn and the section from Lydbrook Junction to Monmouth Troy was closed on 5 January 1959. The remaining section remained open until the 1st November 1965 for freight traffic only. The Hereford, Ross and Gloucester Railway closed to passengers on 2 November 1964 and the line south to the junction at Grange Court closed on 1 November 1965. The line going north to Rotherwas Junction and Hereford Station closed when passenger service were withdrawn in 1964.
The brick built station building has been demolished and the site redeveloped into an industrial estate. The brick goods and engine sheds still stand.
The Severn Valley Railway station at Kidderminster Town is based on the design for Ross-on-Wye even down to the decorative cast roof crestings; the patterns for which were derived from measurement of segments of the original ones.