Cam railway station served the village of

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. The station was on the short

Dursley and Midland Junction Railway The Dursley and Midland Junction Railway was a company formed to build a railway branch line to connect the town of Dursley in Gloucestershire, England, to the nearby main line between Bristol and Gloucester, at Coaley. The line was opened in 18 ...

line which linked the town of

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to the

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's Bristol to Gloucester line at Coaley Junction. The railway, just 2.5 miles (4 km) long, ran along the valley of the

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. Cam station was situated at northern end of the village, close to the cloth mill of

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, to which there was a siding. The station opened with the line in 1856 and consisted of a single platform with a brick building and a wooden goods shed. It was the only intermediate station on the line and all passenger trains called there. Journeys between

Coaley Junction railway station Coaley is a village in the England, English county of Gloucestershire roughly 4 miles from the town of Dursley, and 5 miles from the town of Stroud, Gloucestershire, Stroud. The village drops from the edge of the Cotswold Hills, overlooked by Fr ...

and Dursley took only 10 minutes and around half a dozen trains were provided each day, with excursion traffic in the summer. The trains that ran on the line were affectionately known as the "Dursley Donkey". Passenger traffic was vulnerable to competition from buses and services ceased on 10 September 1962. Goods services at Cam also finished then, but the line remained open to goods traffic from Dursley under

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regularly to 1966 and irregularly to 1968, and even after that the line was retained as a private siding, finally closing in 1970. Cam station was demolished and no trace now remains. Coaley Junction, where the Dursley line joined the main line, remained open for passenger traffic until 1965 when it was closed with the withdrawal of stopping train services between Bristol and Gloucester. However, local pressure for a station resulted in the opening of a new station close to Coaley in 1994, and this is known as Cam and Dursley.

Stationmasters

*James Boughton ca. 1859 - 1875 *Joseph Clayfield 1875 - 1885 (afterwards station master at Ryefield) *William Pridmore 1885 - ca. 1924 *Albert Hemming 1924 - 1937 (also station master at Dursley) *F.A. Cook 1937 - 1947 (formerly station master at Charfield, also station master at Dursley, afterwards station master at Keighley)

Services

References

Stroud District Disused railway stations in Gloucestershire Former Midland Railway stations Railway stations in Great Britain opened in 1856 Railway stations in Great Britain closed in 1962 {{Gloucestershire-struct-stub