Stonehouse (Bristol Road) railway station

Stonehouse (Bristol Road)
The site of Stonehouse (Bristol Road) station as viewed from the north. The surviving Station Master's house can be seen in the distance.
Location	Stonehouse, Stroud England
Grid reference	SO798054
Platforms	3
Other information
Status	Disused
History
Original company	Bristol and Gloucester Railway
Pre-grouping	Midland Railway
Post-grouping	London, Midland and Scottish Railway
Key dates
8 July 1844 (1844-07-08)	Opened as Stonehouse
17 September 1951	Renamed Stonehouse (Bristol Road)
4 January 1965 (1965-01-04)	Closed to Passengers
3 January 1966 (1966-01-03)	Closed to Goods

Stonehouse (Bristol Road) railway station was a station in Stonehouse, England, on the Bristol and Gloucester Railway between Haresfield and Frocester.

History[]

A 1909 Railway Clearing House map of railways in the vicinity of Stonehouse, shown here as MIDLAND STA.

v t Stonehouse & Nailsworth Railway
Legend
Cross Country Route ← to Birmingham • to Bristol → Stonehouse (Bristol Road) Ryeford Dudbridge Stroud Woodchester Nailsworth

v t Bristol and Gloucester Railway
Legend
Gloucester–Newport line (SWR) to Newport Gloucester Birmingham & Gloucester Rly (MR) to Birmingham  M5  Haresfield Golden Valley line (GWR) to Swindon Stonehouse (Bristol Road) Stonehouse & Nailsworth Rly (MR) to Nailsworth/Stroud Stroudwater Navigation Frocester Cam & Dursley Coaley Junction Dursley & Midland Junction Rly (MR) to Dursley  M5  Berkeley Road Sharpness branch line (MR) to Sharpness  M5  Charfield Wickwar Wickwar tunnel Thornbury branch line (MR) to Thornbury Yate Westerleigh Junction South Wales Main Line (GWR) to London Paddington Coalpit Heath Sidings Ram Hill Colliery Westerleigh Goods Depot  M4  Bristol Parkway Mangotsfield & Bath branch line (MR) to Bath South Wales Main Line (GWR) to Swansea Mangotsfield Goods line to Avonmouth docks Staple Hill Staple Hill Tunnel Filton Abbey Wood Fishponds Avonside Locomotive Works Clifton Extension Rly (GWR & MR) to Avonmouth Kingswood Junction River Frome Atlas Locomotive Works and collieries  M32  Stapleton Road Lawrence Hill Waste Depot Goods Depots Bristol St Philip's Bristol Harbour River Avon (from Bath) (GWR) Temple Meads Goods Depot Great Western Main Line to London Paddington Bristol Temple Meads Bridge over Victoria Street tunnel under St Mary Redcliffe churchyard Bristol Harbour Railway St Philip's Marsh depot River Avon (to the sea) Bristol & North Somerset Rly (GWR) Bristol and Exeter Railway (GWR) to Taunton and Exeter

The station was called, first and unofficially, Eastington Road and then, officially, Bristol Road to distinguish it from a second station, Stonehouse (Burdett Road), which was on the Cheltenham and Great Western Union Railway, now the Golden Valley Line, between Gloucester and Swindon.^[1]

Bristol Road station was the junction for the Stonehouse and Nailsworth Railway's branch line to Nailsworth, which later had a small branch line of its own to Stroud. Unusually, the junction was to the north of Stonehouse (Bristol Road) station, and the branch line platform was a separate affair to the east of the main line station and connected by a covered pathway. The Nailsworth/Stroud branch lost its passenger services in 1947 as an economy measure, with official closure in 1949, though goods services remained until 1966.^[1]

Services to and from the Bristol Road station on the main line closed to passengers under the Beeching Axe in 1965 and to goods traffic the following year. The redundant goods yard became the Stonehouse Coal Concentration Depot from 7 October 1966. It closed in 1989.^[1]

Reopening plans[]

In July 2017, plans were proposed to reopen the station, which would provide a fast link to Bristol.^[2][3] In September 2020, Stroud District Council announced that they had backed plans to reopen the railway station.^[4]

Services[]

References[]

External links[]

• Stonehouse (Bristol Road) Station - Stonehouse History Group

Coordinates: 51°44′49″N 2°17′36″W / 51.7470°N 2.2932°W / 51.7470; -2.2932