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Newnham railway station was a station serving the village of Newnham on Severn,
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Gloucestershire
Gloucestershire ( abbreviated Glos) is a county in South West England. The county comprises part of the Cotswold Hills, part of the flat fertile valley of the River Severn and the entire Forest of Dean.
The county town is the city of Gl ...
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History
The South Wales Railway
The South Wales Railway ( cy, Rheilffordd De Cymru) was a main line railway which opened in stages from 1850, connecting the Great Western Railway from Gloucester to South Wales. It was constructed on the broad gauge. An original aspiration was to ...
was formed in 1845 to build a line from to Fishguard and to ; an eastern extension to was soon added, which would meet a westward extension of the Great Western Railway
The Great Western Railway (GWR) was a British railway company that linked London with the southwest, west and West Midlands of England and most of Wales. It was founded in 1833, received its enabling Act of Parliament on 31 August 1835 and ran ...
from . The line from Gloucester to opened on 19 September 1851, and included a station at Newnham.
The station closed on 5 May 1941, and reopened on 7 October 1946.
Final closure came on 2 November 1964.
Route
See also
* Railways and Canals of the Forest of DeanNotes
References
* *Further reading
* {{Transport in Gloucestershire Disused railway stations in Gloucestershire Former Great Western Railway stations Railway stations in Great Britain opened in 1851 Railway stations in Great Britain closed in 1941 Railway stations in Great Britain opened in 1946 Railway stations in Great Britain closed in 1964 Beeching closures in England 1851 establishments in England