Stow-on-the-Wold railway station was a station on the Great Western Railway's

Banbury and Cheltenham Direct Railway The Banbury and Cheltenham Direct Railway (B&CDR) was a railway company through the Cotswolds in England that built a line between points near Banbury and Cheltenham. Its principal objective, as well as a general rural rail service, was the conve ...

that opened in 1881. Situated about one and a half miles to the south the station served the

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 ...

town of

Stow-on-the-Wold Stow-on-the-Wold is a market town and civil parish in Gloucestershire, England, on top of an 800-foot (244 m) hill at the junction of main roads through the Cotswolds, including the Fosse Way (A429), which is of Roman origin. The town was founde ...

and its surrounding villages. The station passed on to the

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on nationalisation in 1948. It was then closed by the

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Stationmasters

*George Tibbs until 1900 *James Dowler 1900 - 1923 (formerly station master at Notgrove) *G.J. Fifield 1923 - 1932 (formerly station master at Broadway) *E.G. Unitt from 1932 (formerly station master at Awre)

External links

Station on 1947 OS Map

References

{{Transport in Gloucestershire Former Great Western Railway stations Disused railway stations in Gloucestershire Railway stations in Great Britain opened in 1881 Railway stations in Great Britain closed in 1962 1881 establishments in England Stow-on-the-Wold Cotswold District