Adlestrop railway station
Adlestrop | |
|---|---|
Cotswold England | |
| Coordinates | 51°56′10″N 1°39′33″W / 51.9360°N 1.6591°W |
| Grid reference | SP235264 |
| Platforms | 2 |
| Other information | |
| Status | Disused |
| History | |
| Original company | Oxford, Worcester and Wolverhampton Railway |
| Pre-grouping | Great Western Railway |
| Post-grouping | Great Western Railway Western Region of British Railways |
| Key dates | |
| 4 June 1853 | Opened as Addlestrop and Stow Road |
| 1 March 1862 | Renamed Addlestrop |
| 1 July 1883 | Renamed Adlestrop |
| 3 January 1966 | Closed |
Adlestrop railway station was a
History
Adlestrop station was opened on 4 June 1853 by the
Facilities for goods traffic were on the
On 1 January 1860 the OW&W became part of the West Midland Railway which, on 1 August 1863, was absorbed by the Great Western Railway.[10] It then passed on to the Western Region of British Railways after nationalisation in 1948. British Railways closed Adlestrop to goods traffic on 26 August 1963 and to passenger traffic on 3 January 1966.[11][4] The signal box closed on 27 April 1964 and the sidings were made redundant.[3]
| Preceding station | Historical railways | Following station | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Kingham Line and station open |
Great Western Railway Oxford, Worcester and Wolverhampton Railway |
Moreton-in-Marsh Line and station open | ||
The site today
The station building was demolished soon after closure in 1966.[9] A station seat and one of the two station nameboards were rescued and were subsequently moved to a bus shelter in the village.[9] The other nameboard was also rescued and given to the alma mater of Edward Thomas, Lincoln College, Oxford, and subsequently destroyed. Trains on the Cotswold Line pass the station site in the Evenlode Valley, where all evidence of its existence has vanished.[8] The stationmaster's house is now a private residence, while the former goods yard is a vehicle dump.[8]
"Adlestrop" poem
Despite the station's demise, it is better-known today than many small stations still open as a result of the short poem "Adlestrop" by Edward Thomas, written in 1914, which recounts the moment in June that year when the train on which the poet was a passenger stopped at Adlestrop.[3] Thomas's field note books show that the stop was made at 12.45 which corresponds to a scheduled down stopping service, not an unscheduled stop by an express as described in the poem. Other elements in the poem are based on stops by the same train at Campden and Colwall.[12] A bench bearing a plaque with the poem engraved on it was transferred to a bus shelter in the village.[13]
Notes
- ^ "Adlestrop by Edward Thomas". Poets' Graves.
- ^ Harvey, p.11.
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j Potts (1985), p. 5.
- ^ a b Butt (1995), p. 13.
- ^ Stretton (2008), p. 121.
- ^ Potts (1985), p. 6.
- ^ UK Retail Price Index inflation figures are based on data from Clark, Gregory (2017). "The Annual RPI and Average Earnings for Britain, 1209 to Present (New Series)". MeasuringWorth. Retrieved 11 June 2022.
- ^ a b c Stretton (2008), p. 122.
- ^ a b c d Leigh (1982), p. 124.
- ^ Awdry (1990), pp. 39, 51.
- ^ Clinker (1978), p. 2.
- ^ Harvey, p.11.
- ^ "Adlestrop, Gloucestershire". Astoft. Archived from the original on 12 March 2007.
Sources
- OCLC 19514063. CN 8983.
- OL 11956311M.
- Clinker, C. R. (October 1978). Clinker's Register of Closed Passenger Stations and Goods Depots in England, Scotland and Wales 1830-1977. Bristol: Avon-Anglia Publications & Services. ISBN 0-905466-19-5.
- Jowett, Alan (2000). Jowett's Nationalised Railway Atlas (1st ed.). Penryn, Cornwall: Atlantic Transport Publishers. OCLC 228266687.
- Leigh, Chris (1982) [1981]. GWR Country Stations. Shepperton: ISBN 0-7110-1108-7.
- Potts, C. R. (1985). A Historical Survey of selected Great Western Railway stations (Volume 4). Poole, Dorset: Oxford Publishing Co. ISBN 978-0-86093-191-1.
- Stretton, John (2008). British Railways Past and Present: North Gloucestershire. Kettering, Northants: Past & Present Publishing. ISBN 978-1-85895-257-4.
- Harvey, Anne (1999). Adlestrop Revisited. Stroud, Gloucestershire: Sutton Publishing. ISBN 0-7509-2289-3.
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