Disused Railway Stations in Herefordshire - Ross-On-Wye Railway Station, Kerne Bridge Railway Station, Walford Halt Railway Station (Paperback)

Chapters: Ross-On-Wye Railway Station, Kerne Bridge Railway Station, Walford Halt Railway Station, Abbeydore Railway Station, Bacton Railway Station, Symonds Yat Railway Station, Ballingham Railway Station, Mitcheldean Road Railway Station, Pontrilas Railway Station, Backney Halt Railway Station, Holme Lacy Railway Station, Weston Under Penyard Halt Railway Station, Fawley Railway Station, Ashperton Railway Station, Almeley Railway Station, Vowchurch Railway Station, Ledbury Town Halt Railway Station, Berrington and Eye Railway Station, Titley Junction Railway Station, Hereford Barton Railway Station. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 55. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Ross-on-Wye railway station is a disused 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. The station was opened on 1st 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 On the Ross and Monmouth Railway passenger services were withdrawn and the section from Lydbrook Junction to Monmouth Troy was closed on 5 January 1959...More: http: //booksllc.net/?id=2417504