Haresfield railway station

Haresfield
Station in 1961 with BR Standard Class 9F 92151 working the Pines Express.
Location
Place	Haresfield
Area	Stroud
Coordinates	51°47′18″N 2°16′25″W / 51.7883°N 2.2737°WCoordinates: 51°47′18″N 2°16′25″W / 51.7883°N 2.2737°W
Operations
Original company	Midland Railway
Pre-grouping	Midland Railway
Post-grouping	London, Midland and Scottish Railway
Platforms	2
History
29 May 1854	Station opened
4 January 1965	Station closed
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Haresfield railway station served the village of Haresfield in Gloucestershire.

History

A 1909 Railway Clearing House map of railways in the vicinity of Haresfield (top right)

The station was opened on 29 May 1854^[1] on the Bristol and Gloucester Railway when that railway, which had opened in 1844, was being converted from broad gauge to the standard gauge used by its new owner, the Midland Railway.

Haresfield served only the Midland Railway tracks: although the Great Western Railway's Swindon to Gloucester services passed on parallel tracks to the east of the Midland lines, the GWR did not build a station and passengers on the rather narrow platforms at Haresfield were screened from passing GWR trains by wooden barriers.

Haresfield never provided any freight facilities and it closed to passenger services on 4 January 1965^[1] along with other stations on the Bristol to Gloucester line. Today, the four tracks (two Midland and two GWR) have been realigned and all trace of the station has been obliterated.^[2]

Services

Bristol and Gloucester Railway
Legend
Gloucester to Newport Line (SWR) to Newport Gloucester Birmingham & Gloucester Rly (MR) to Birmingham (1854-1965)Haresfield Golden Valley Line (GWR) to Swindon Stonehouse (Bristol Road) (Closed 1965) Stonehouse & Nailsworth Rly (MR) to Nailsworth/Stroud Stroudwater Navigation (Closed 1961)Frocester Cam and Dursley(Opened 1994) (1856-1965)Coaley Junction Dursley & Midland Junction Rly (MR) to Dursley Berkeley Road(Closed 1965) Sharpness Branch Line (MR) to Sharpness (Closed 1965)Charfield Wickwar(Closed 1965) Wickwar tunnel Yate to Thornbury Branch Line (MR) to Thornbury Yate( Closed 1965 Reopened 1989 ) Westerleigh Junction South Wales Main Line (GWR) to London Paddington Coalpit Heath Sidings Ram Hill Colliery Westerleigh Goods Depot Bristol Parkway Mangotsfield & Bath Branch Line (MR) to Bath South Wales Main Line (GWR) to Swansea Mangotsfield(1845-1966) Goods line to Avonmouth docks Staple Hill(1888-1966) Staple Hill Tunnel Filton Abbey Wood Fishponds(1866-1966) Avonside Locomotive Works Clifton Extension Rly (GWR & MR) to Avonmouth Kingswood Junction River Frome Atlas Locomotive Works and collieries Stapleton Road Lawrence Hill Waste Depot Goods Depots ( Terminus 1870-1953 )Bristol St Philips 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 Philips Marsh TMD River Avon (to the sea) Bristol & North Somerset Rly (GWR) Bristol and Exeter Railway (GWR) to Taunton and Exeter

Preceding station	Disused railways			Following station
Stonehouse (Bristol Road) Line open, station closed		Midland Railway Bristol and Gloucester Railway		Gloucester Line and station open
				Gloucester Eastgate Line and station closed

References

1. Butt, R.V.J. (1995). The Directory of Railway Stations. Yeovil: Patrick Stephens Ltd. p. 114. ISBN 1-85260-508-1. R508.
2. Mike Oakley (2003). Gloucestershire Railway Stations. Wimborne: Dovecote Press. pp. 82–83. ISBN 1-904349-24-2.