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Ledbury And Gloucester Railway
The Ledbury and Gloucester Railway (also known as the Daffodil Line), was a railway line in Herefordshire and Gloucestershire, England, running between Ledbury and Gloucester. It opened in 1885 and closed in 1964. History Most of the line was built over the route of the southern section of the Herefordshire and Gloucestershire Canal, which had opened in 1798. Construction and opening After a period of financial struggle the canal was leased to the Great Western Railway (GWR) in 1863 and in 1881 work started on conversion to a railway. The railway was built by two companies, the Newent Railway and the Ross and Ledbury Railway. The line was inspected by Colonel F. H. Rich in July 1885 and opened on 27 July. It was operated by the GWR with which both of the smaller companies were amalgamated in 1892. Closure The line closed to passenger traffic in 1959, with the Dymock to Gloucester section remaining open to goods traffic until 1964. Route The line followed a south and then sout ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gloucester - Ledbury Railway Bridge
Gloucester ( ) is a cathedral city and the county town of Gloucestershire in the South West of England. Gloucester lies on the River Severn, between the Cotswolds to the east and the Forest of Dean to the west, east of Monmouth and east of the border with Wales. Including suburban areas, Gloucester has a population of around 132,000. It is a port, linked via the Gloucester and Sharpness Canal to the Severn Estuary. Gloucester was founded by the Romans and became an important city and ''colony'' in AD 97 under Emperor Nerva as '' Colonia Glevum Nervensis''. It was granted its first charter in 1155 by Henry II. In 1216, Henry III, aged only nine years, was crowned with a gilded iron ring in the Chapter House of Gloucester Cathedral. Gloucester's significance in the Middle Ages is underlined by the fact that it had a number of monastic establishments, including: St Peter's Abbey founded in 679 (later Gloucester Cathedral), the nearby St Oswald's Priory, Glouceste ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Greenway Halt Railway Station (Gloucestershire)
Greenway Halt was a request stop on the former Ledbury and Gloucester Railway. It opened on 1st April 1937 and closed in 1959 when the line was closed to passengers. It was situated along the profile of what is now the Dymock Road, 4 miles from Ledbury. The Victorian station house remains today on the site opposite the Old Nail Shop. It continues to run in parallel to the River Leadon The River Leadon () is a river in Herefordshire and Gloucestershire, England, a tributary of the River Severn. It rises just south of the village of Acton Beauchamp, and flows south past Bosbury to the town of Ledbury, which takes its name fr ... another mile before it reaches the village and Dymock station. References Further reading * Disused railway stations in Gloucestershire Former Great Western Railway stations Railway stations in Great Britain opened in 1937 Railway stations in Great Britain closed in 1959 {{SouthWestEngland-railstation-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Great Western Railway Constituents
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Rail Transport In Herefordshire
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Rail Transport In Gloucestershire
Rail or rails may refer to: Rail transport *Rail transport and related matters *Rail (rail transport) or railway lines, the running surface of a railway Arts and media Film * ''Rails'' (film), a 1929 Italian film by Mario Camerini * ''Rail'' (1967 film), a film by Geoffrey Jones for British Transport Films *'' Mirattu'' or ''Rail'', a Tamil-language film and its Telugu dub Magazines * ''Rail'' (magazine), a British rail transport periodical * ''Rails'' (magazine), a former New Zealand based rail transport periodical Other arts *The Rails, a British folk-rock band * Rail (theater) or batten, a pipe from which lighting, scenery, or curtains are hung Technology *Rails framework or Ruby on Rails, a web application framework *Rail system (firearms), a mounting system for firearm attachments *Front engine dragster *Runway alignment indicator lights, a configuration of an approach lighting system *Rule Augmented Interconnect Layout, a specification for expressing guidelines for prin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Geograph
Geograph Britain and Ireland is a web-based project, begun in March 2005, to create a freely accessible archive of geographically located photographs of Great Britain and Ireland. Photographs in the Geograph collection are chosen to illustrate significant or typical features of each 1 km × 1 km (100 ha) grid square in the Ordnance Survey National Grid and the Irish national grid reference system.Hawgood D. Geograph or supplemental (June 2007) (accessed 13 March 2008) There are 332,216 such grid squares containing at least some land or permanent structure (at low tide), of which 280,037 have Geographs. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hereford Road Skew Bridge
Hereford Road Skew Bridge is a disused railway bridge in Ledbury, Herefordshire. Built in 1881 to carry the Ledbury and Gloucester Railway across the Hereford Road at an angle of approximately 45°, it was built as a ribbed skew arch with stone spandrels and wing walls, and ribs of blue brick. The railway line was closed in 1959 and the bridge is now used as part of the Ledbury Town Trail footpath. History The Herefordshire and Gloucestershire Canal opened in two phases in 1798 and 1845, but in 1863, after a period of financial difficulty, it was leased to the Great Western Railway and in 1881 work started on converting the southern section into a railway. The Ross and Ledbury Railway Company's intention was to build a line between Ledbury and Ross-on-Wye via Dymock, where the Newent Railway Company planned a junction and a line that would link to the Great Western Railway at Over Junction, west of Gloucester. Both companies received Parliamentary approval in 1873, but d ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Skew Arch
A skew arch (also known as an oblique arch) is a method of construction that enables an arch bridge to span an obstacle at some angle other than a right angle. This results in the faces of the arch not being perpendicular to its abutments and its plan view being a parallelogram, rather than the rectangle that is the plan view of a regular, or "square" arch. In the case of a masonry skew arch, the construction requires precise stonecutting, as the cuts do not form right angles, but once the principles were fully understood in the early 19th century, it became considerably easier and cheaper to build a skew arch of brick. The problem of building skew arch masonry bridges was addressed by a number of early civil engineers and mathematicians, including Giovanni Barbara (1726), William Chapman (1787), Benjamin Outram (1798), Peter Nicholson (1828), George Stephenson (1830), Edward Sang (1835), Charles Fox (1836), George W. Buck (1839) and William Froude (''c.'' 1844). History ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Barbers Bridge Railway Station
Barbers Bridge railway station was on the Ledbury and Gloucester Railway in Gloucestershire, England. It was opened on 27 July 1885 and it closed to passengers on 13 July 1959, and then fully closed in 1964. The station was located just to the east of Tibberton village, on the west side of the B4215 road B roads are numbered routes in Great Britain of lesser importance than A roads. See the article Great Britain road numbering scheme The Great Britain road numbering scheme is a numbering scheme used to classify and identify all roads in Gr .... References Further reading * Disused railway stations in Gloucestershire Former Great Western Railway stations Railway stations in Great Britain opened in 1885 Railway stations in Great Britain closed in 1959 {{Gloucestershire-struct-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Malswick Halt Railway Station
Malswick Halt was a request stop on the former Ledbury and Gloucester Railway The Ledbury and Gloucester Railway (also known as the Daffodil Line), was a railway line in Herefordshire and Gloucestershire, England, running between Ledbury and Gloucester. It opened in 1885 and closed in 1964. History Most of the line was b .... It opened on 1st February 1938Railway Passenger Stations by M.Quick page 303 and was closed in 1959 when the line was closed to passengers. References Further reading * Disused railway stations in Gloucestershire Former Great Western Railway stations Railway stations in Great Britain opened in 1938 Railway stations in Great Britain closed in 1959 Newent {{Gloucestershire-struct-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Newent Railway Station
Newent railway station served the town of Newent in Gloucestershire, England. It opened on 27 July 1885 when the Newent Railway and the Ross and Ledbury Railway (with whom the Newent Railway had an end on connection at ) opened their lines making a connection between and Over Junction on the Gloucester and Dean Forest Railway. The station had two platforms on a passing loop, a goods shed to the west and several sidings, one of which was equipped with a 5 ton crane. The goods yard was able to accommodate live stock and a full range of goods. The station was host to a GWR camp coach in 1935, 1938 and 1939. The station closed for passengers on 13 July 1959, but the line remained open for freight traffic until 1964. It was located opposite what is now the Newent fire station. The buttresses of the Station Bridge can be seen intact on nearby Station Road. As of 2011 there was a proposal by the Herefordshire and Gloucestershire Canal Trust to reopen the 34 mile Herefordshire ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Four Oaks Halt Railway Station
Four Oaks Halt was a request stop on the former Ledbury and Gloucester Railway. It was located 2 miles north of Newent Newent (; originally called "Noent") is a market town and civil parish about 10½ miles (17 km) north-west of Gloucester, England. Its population was 5,073 at the 2001 census, rising to 5,207 in 2011, The population was 6,777 at the 2021 Census. .... The station opened on 16 October 1937 and closed in 1959 when passenger services were withdrawn from the line. There was a simple wooden platform and shelter, built on the line of the lifted double track when it was singled. References Further reading * Disused railway stations in Gloucestershire Former Great Western Railway stations Railway stations in Great Britain opened in 1937 Railway stations in Great Britain closed in 1959 1937 establishments in England 1959 disestablishments in England {{Gloucestershire-struct-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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