Bourton-on-the-Water railway station

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Coordinates: 51°53′26″N 1°45′21″W / 51.89068°N 1.75578°W / 51.89068; -1.75578
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Bourton-on-the-Water
Cotswold
England
Coordinates51°53′26″N 1°45′23″W / 51.8905932°N 1.7563591°W / 51.8905932; -1.7563591
Platforms2
Other information
StatusDisused
History
Original companyBourton-on-the-Water Railway
Pre-groupingGreat Western Railway
Post-groupingGreat Western Railway
Western Region of British Railways
Key dates
1 March 1862[1]Station opens
15 October 1962Closed to passengers
7 September 1964[2]Goods facilities withdrawn
The station in 1961

Bourton-on-the-Water railway station was a Gloucestershire railway station on the Great Western Railway's Banbury and Cheltenham Direct Railway which opened in 1881 and closed in 1964.

History

The Bourton-on-the-Water railway station was situated just to the north of the village and served surrounding villages like Lower Slaughter. It was rebuilt in 1936 by the Chief Architect to the Great Western Railway, Percy Emerson Culverhouse. The station was host to a GWR camp coach in 1935, 1938 and 1939.[3]

The station passed on to the

nationalisation
in 1948. The last passenger service to the station was on 13 October 1962. Goods services between the station and Cheltenham ceased in 1962 with the service between Bourton and Kingham closing a year later.

Stationmasters

  • George Spreckley ca. 1863
  • Edward Jackson Cuff 1864 - 1866[4] (afterwards station master at Moreton-in-Marsh)
  • Charles William Caldicot 1868 - 1871
  • George Pope ca. 1879 ca. 1891
  • Robert Eaton from 1893[5]
  • William L. Mills until 1897
  • George Christopher Anney 1897[6] - 1904[7] (formerly station master at Leckhampton, afterwards station master at Moreton-in-Marsh)
  • William Henry Penson 1905[8] - 1917 (afterwards station master at Brinscombe)
  • F.C. Price
  • William Albert Mace 1922 - 1929[9]
  • N.J. Fletcher from 1929
  • W. May until 1934[10]
  • H.E. Spencer from 1934

Present day

Following closure, the station was used as a highways depot by Gloucestershire County Council. The (last) station building, built in the 1930s, was demolished in 2011.

The Gloucestershire Warwickshire Railway had considered reusing the building at its Broadway railway station, but later changed its mind.[11]


Preceding station   Disused railways   Following station
Notgrove
Line and station closed 		  Great Western Railway
Banbury and Cheltenham Direct Railway 		  Stow-on-the-Wold
Line and station closed

References

  1. OL 11956311M
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  2. ISBN 0-905466-19-5
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  3. ISBN 1-870119-48-7
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  4. ^ "1835-1910 Clerks Vol.5". Great Western Railway Operating, Traffic and Coaching Depts: 122. 1835. Retrieved 22 May 2022.
  5. ^ "Promotion". Witney Gazette and West Oxfordshire Advertiser. England. 15 April 1893. Retrieved 22 May 2022 – via British Newspaper Archive.
  6. ^ "1835-1900 Clerks Vol.6". Great Western Railway Operating, Traffic and Coaching Depts: 11. 1835. Retrieved 22 May 2022.
  7. ^ "Bourton-on-the-Water". Oxfordshire Weekly News. England. 15 February 1905. Retrieved 22 May 2022 – via British Newspaper Archive.
  8. ^ "G.W.R. Magazine". Cheltenham Chronicle. England. 5 August 1905. Retrieved 22 May 2022 – via British Newspaper Archive.
  9. ^ "Presentation at Bourton". Cheltenham Chronicle. England. 23 February 1929. Retrieved 22 May 2022 – via British Newspaper Archive.
  10. ^ "New Bourton Station Master". Gloucestershire Echo. England. 27 April 1934. Retrieved 22 May 2022 – via British Newspaper Archive.
  11. ^ Deshmukh, Anita (28 June 2007). "New station for Broadway?". Cotswold Journal. Archived from the original on 25 August 2020. Retrieved 25 August 2020.

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