Andoversford Junction railway station

Andoversford Junction
Location
Place	Andoversford
Area	Cotswold
Operations
Original company	Banbury and Cheltenham Direct Railway
Pre-grouping	Great Western Railway
Post-grouping	Great Western Railway
History
1 June 1881	Station opens as Andoversford
July 1926	Station renamed Andoversford Junction
15 October 1962	Station closes
Disused railway stations in the United Kingdom
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Andoversford Junction railway station was in Gloucestershire on the Great Western Railway's Banbury and Cheltenham Direct Railway that opened in 1881. Situated about six miles east of Cheltenham, the station served the village of Andoversford with its large market, which provided a lot of the traffic at the station.

History

A 1913 Railway Clearing House map of railways in the vicinity of Andoversford

In 1891, the Midland and South Western Junction Railway extended its line northwards from Cirencester to a junction with the GWR Cheltenham to Banbury line just east of Andoversford station. M&SWJR trains ran into Cheltenham over the GWR tracks, but were not permitted to call at Andoversford station until 1904. The M&SWJR opened its own station, called Andoversford and Dowdeswell, on the opposite side of the village. Under the Grouping, the GWR took control of the M&SWJR; it renamed Andoversford station as Andoversford Junction in 1926 and closed Andoversford and Dowdeswell to passenger traffic the following year, though it remained open for goods.

The station passed on to the Western Region of British Railways on nationalisation in 1948. It was then closed by the British Transport Commission.

The site today

The M&SWJR line closed to passengers in 1961 and the Cheltenham to Banbury line a year later. Andoversford station was demolished.

References

Oakley, Mike (2003). Gloucestershire Railway Stations. Wimborne: Dovecote Press. ISBN 1-904349-24-2.
Butt, R. V. J. (1995). The Directory of Railway Stations: details every public and private passenger station, halt, platform and stopping place, past and present (1st ed.). Sparkford: Patrick Stephens Ltd. ISBN 1-8526-0508-1. OCLC 60251199.
Jowett, Alan (2000). Jowett's Nationalised Railway Atlas (1st ed.). Penryn, Cornwall: Atlantic Transport Publishers. ISBN 0-9068-9999-0. OCLC 228266687.
Jowett, Alan (March 1989). Jowett's Railway Atlas of Great Britain and Ireland: From Pre-Grouping to the Present Day (1st ed.). Sparkford: Patrick Stephens Ltd. ISBN 1-8526-0086-1. OCLC 22311137.
Station on navigable O.S. map

Preceding station	Disused railways			Following station
Charlton Kings Line and station closed		Great Western Railway Midland and South Western Junction Railway		Andoversford and Dowdeswell Line and station closed
Charlton Kings Line and station closed		Great Western Railway Banbury and Cheltenham Direct Railway		Notgrove Line and station closed

Closed railway stations in eastern Gloucestershire

Cheltenham and Great Western Union Railway	Tetbury Road Chalford St Mary's Crossing Halt Brimscombe Brimscombe Bridge Halt Ham Mill Halt Bowbridge Crossing Halt Downfield Crossing Halt Cashes Green Halt Ebley Crossing Halt Churchdown Cheltenham Spa Malvern Road Cheltenham Spa St. James

Cirencester Branch Line	Park Leaze Halt Chesterton Lane Halt Cirencester Town

Tetbury branch line	Jackament's Bridge Halt Rodmarton Platform Church's Hill Halt Culkerton Trouble House Halt Tetbury

Midland and South Western Junction Railway	South Cerney Cirencester Watermoor Foss Cross Chedworth Halt Withington (Glos) Andoversford and Dowdeswell

East Gloucestershire Railway	Lechlade Fairford

Banbury and Cheltenham Direct Railway	Stow-on-the-Wold Bourton-on-the-Water Notgrove Andoversford Junction Charlton Kings Cheltenham Leckhampton

Oxford, Worcester and Wolverhampton Railway	Adlestrop Blockley Chipping Campden Mickleton Halt

Honeybourne Line	Cheltenham High Street Halt Bishops Cleeve Gretton Halt Hayles Abbey Halt Laverton Halt Willersey Halt Weston-sub-Edge

Bristol and South Wales Union Railway	Ashley Hill Horfield Filton Filton Junction Pilning Low Level Cross Hands Halt New Passage Halt New Passage New Passage Pier

Bristol and Gloucester Railway	St Philip's Fishponds Staple Hill Mangotsfield Wickwar Charfield Berkeley Road Coaley Frocester Stonehouse Bristol Road Haresfield Gloucester Eastgate

Mangotsfield and Bath Branch Line	Warmley

Thornbury Branch Line	Iron Acton Tytherington Thornbury

Sharpness Branch Line	Berkeley Sharpness

Dursley and Midland Junction Railway	Cam Dursley

Stonehouse and Nailsworth Railway	Ryeford Dudbridge Stroud Woodchester Nailsworth

Birmingham and Gloucester Railway	Cleeve Cheltenham High Street Badgworth Churchdown

Tewkesbury and Malvern Railway	Tewkesbury

Coordinates: 51°52′43″N 1°58′26″W / 51.87864°N 1.97375°W / 51.87864; -1.97375

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