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Coordinates: 51°54′59″N 2°34′28″W / 51.9163°N 2.5745°W / 51.9163; -2.5745
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Ross-on-Wye railway station
The derelict station in September 1974.
General information
LocationRoss-on-Wye, Herefordshire
England
Coordinates51°54′59″N 2°34′28″W / 51.9163°N 2.5745°W / 51.9163; -2.5745
Grid referenceSO605243
Platforms3
Other information
StatusDisused
History
Original companyHereford, Ross and Gloucester Railway
Pre-groupingGreat Western Railway
Post-groupingGreat Western Railway
Key dates
1 June 1855Opened
2 November 1964Closed for passengers
1 November 1965Closed for freight traffic
Location
Map
Hereford, Ross
and Gloucester Railway
Legend
Welsh Marches line (S&HR)
Cotswold Line (OW&WR)
Hereford, Hay & Brecon Rly
 Hereford Barrs Court
Hereford Barton
River Wye
Rotherwas Junction
 ROF Rotherwas
Welsh Marches line NA&HR)
Dinedor tunnel
 Holme Lacy
Ballingham tunnel
 Ballingham
Ballingham Bridge
across the River Wye
Fawley Tunnel
 Fawley
River Wye
 Backney Halt
River Wye
 Ross-on-Wye
Ross and Monmouth Railway
 Weston under Penyard Halt
Mitcheldean Road & Forest of Dean
Junction Railway
 Mitcheldean Road
Lea Line tunnel
 Longhope
Blaisdon Halt
Gloucester–Newport line (SWR)
 Grange Court
Grange Court Junction
Gloucester–Newport line (G&DFR)

Ross-on-Wye served the town of Ross-on-Wye, in Herefordshire, England. It was a junction railway station: the terminus of the Ross and Monmouth Railway, which joined the Hereford, Ross and Gloucester Railway just south of the station.

History

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A Hereford to Gloucester train at the station, in 1958

The station was opened on 1 June 1855 by the Hereford, Ross and Gloucester Railway, four years after line had received parliamentary consent to be constructed. A line from Ross-on-Wye to Tewkesbury was authorised by parliament in 1856, but was never built.

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. The wide door of the broad gauge engine shed was partially bricked up, leaving a standard gauge opening that remained for the life of the shed.[1] 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.

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. The remaining section remained open until 1 November 1965 for freight traffic only. The Hereford, Ross and Gloucester Railway closed to passengers on 2 November 1964 and the line south to the junction at Grange Court closed on 1 November 1965. The line going north to Rotherwas Junction and Hereford closed when passenger service were withdrawn in 1964.[2]

The Severn Valley Railway station at Kidderminster Town is based on the design for Ross-on-Wye even down to the decorative cast roof crestings; the patterns for which were derived from measurement of segments of the original ones.[3]

Stationmasters

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  • Mr. Grundy ca. 1856
  • James Rycroft 1865[4]-1885[5]
  • William Francis Marvin 1889-1899[6] (later the stationmaster at Gloucester)
  • Ernest C. Peglar 1900[7]-1911 (formerly stationmaster at Abergavenny)
  • W.P. Roberts 1911-1915[8] (later the stationmaster at Stroud)
  • A.J. Bannister D.S.O. 1915-1921[9] (later the stationmaster at Paignton)
  • W.J. Fey 1921-1925[10] (formerly stationmaster at Lydney and Grange Court)
  • C.J. Rees 1925[11]-1930 (formerly stationmaster at Whimsy)
  • R.W. Kilvington 1931[12]
  • Allan A. Crabbe 1931-1932[13] (later the stationmaster at Cheltenham)


Preceding station   Disused railways   Following station
Walford Halt   Ross and Monmouth Railway
British Railways 		  Terminus
Weston under Penyard Halt   Hereford, Ross and Gloucester Railway
British Railways 		  Backney Halt

The site today

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The former station yard
A former Great Western Railway shed, now a garden centre

The brick built station building has been demolished and the site redeveloped into an industrial estate.[14] The brick goods and engine sheds still stand.

References

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Citations

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  1. ^ Parkhouse, BRHIC, Vol 1, pp. 167–172, 6: The Ross & Monmouth Railway.
  2. ^ "Herefordshire Through Time". 2 March 2015.
  3. ^ "Ross-on-Wye Civic Society - Ross Railway Station lives on". Ross-on-Wye Civic Society. 2005. Archived from the original on 20 February 2022. Retrieved 27 September 2022.
  4. ^ "1835-1910 Clerks Vol.5". Great Western Railway: 43. 1835. Retrieved 19 August 2021.
  5. ^ "Ross. The retirement of the Stationmaster". Gloucester Citizen. England. 17 October 1885. Retrieved 19 August 2021 – via British Newspaper Archive.
  6. ^ "Ross. The Testimonial to Mr. W.F. Marvin". Gloucester Citizen. England. 28 December 1899. Retrieved 19 August 2021 – via British Newspaper Archive.
  7. ^ "Presentation to the Stationmaster". Hereford Journal. England. 31 March 1900. Retrieved 15 August 2021 – via British Newspaper Archive.
  8. ^ "Gloucester G.W.R. Station-master". Gloucester Citizen. England. 7 January 1926. Retrieved 15 August 2021 – via British Newspaper Archive.
  9. ^ "West of England News". Western Morning News. England. 1 April 1921. Retrieved 15 August 2021 – via British Newspaper Archive.
  10. ^ "Ross Stationmaster's Retirement". Gloucester Journal. England. 29 August 1925. Retrieved 15 August 2021 – via British Newspaper Archive.
  11. ^ "Mr. C.J. Rees". Gloucestershire Echo. England. 22 August 1925. Retrieved 15 August 2021 – via British Newspaper Archive.
  12. ^ "G.W.R. Tributes in Gloucester. Mr. Kilvington's New Post". Gloucester Journal. England. 7 February 1931. Retrieved 15 August 2021 – via British Newspaper Archive.
  13. ^ "Death of a Cheltenham Stationmaster". Gloucestershire Echo. England. 11 July 1933. Retrieved 15 August 2021 – via British Newspaper Archive.
  14. ^ "Ross-on-Wye - The Railway in Ross - The Station". Ross-on-wye.com. 15 February 2011. Archived from the original on 12 June 2021. Retrieved 27 September 2022.

Sources

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  • Parkhouse, Neil (2013). "6: The Ross & Monmouth Railway". West Gloucester & Wye Valley Lines. British Railway History In Colour. Vol. 1. Lydney: Lightmoor Press. pp. 167–200. ISBN 9781899889 76 1.

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