Cheltenham Spa railway station
General information | |
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Location | Cheltenham England |
Coordinates | 51°53′49″N 2°06′00″W / 51.897°N 2.100°W |
Grid reference | SO931220 |
Managed by | Great Western Railway |
Platforms | 2 |
Other information | |
Station code | CNM |
Classification | DfT category C1 |
History | |
Original company | Birmingham and Gloucester Railway |
Pre-grouping | Midland Railway |
Post-grouping | LMS |
Key dates | |
24 June 1840 | Opened as Cheltenham |
1 February 1925 | Renamed Cheltenham Spa (Lansdown) |
1 January 1948 | Renamed Cheltenham Spa |
Passengers | |
2018/19 | 2.468 million |
Interchange | 0.202 million |
2019/20 | 2.591 million |
Interchange | 0.241 million |
2020/21 | 0.462 million |
Interchange | 41,713 |
2021/22 | 1.794 million |
Interchange | 0.169 million |
2022/23 | 1.965 million |
Interchange | 0.222 million |
Location | |
Notes | |
Passenger statistics from the Office of Rail and Road |
Cheltenham Spa railway station serves the spa town of
History
The first railway to Cheltenham was the
The C&GWUR was taken over by the
From 1892 there was a route from Cheltenham to the docks at Southampton, via Andoversford and the Midland and South Western Junction Railway.
The station was renamed Cheltenham Spa (Lansdown) on 1 February 1925 by the London, Midland and Scottish Railway, and renamed again as Cheltenham Spa by British Railways at some point after 1 January 1948.[3]
Stationmasters
- William Turnbull 1844–1872[4] (discharged for failing to report his ticket collector for fraud)[5]
- Joseph Vizard Bendall 1872[4]–1900[6] (formerly station master at Harpenden)
- Henry Ward 1900–1907[6] (afterwards station master at Bedford)
- Horace E. Horne 1907[6]–1909 (formerly station master at Harpenden)
- Charles Williams 1910–1913 (formerly station master at Hay)
- G.Preston Heggs 1913–1914 (afterwards station master at Sheffield)
- Henry Pitt 1914[7]-1918 (formerly station master at Rushden)
- Arthur Ernest Chandler 1918–1928[8] (afterwards station master at Burton upon Trent)
- John Richard Needham from 1956[9] (formerly station master at Lancaster Green Ayre)
Services
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Cheltenham Spa station is served by 8 to 12 trains every hour during the daytime on Mondays to Saturdays; services are less frequent on Sundays. Three
- Great Western Railway operates approximately hourly trains to Swindon via Gloucester; some services extend through to Didcot Parkway, Reading and London Paddington. One train to/from London Paddington per day is extended to Worcester Shrub Hill, calling additionally at Ashchurch for Tewkesbury. GWR also operates local services on the Bristol (Temple Meads/Parkway) to Gloucester and Worcester Shrub Hill route; these serve Cheltenham every two hours each way, with some southbound services continuing onwards to Westbury and Weymouth.[10]
- CrossCountry trains call on three routes: Cardiff Central to Birmingham New Street/Nottingham; the longer-distance Penzance/Plymouth - Glasgow Central route, with extensions to Aberdeen; and Bristol Temple Meads – Manchester Piccadilly. All three of these services run hourly each way, giving a net half-hourly service to Bristol Temple Meads and three departures per hour to/from Birmingham New Street. CrossCountry also operate a morning service to Stansted Airport and summer Saturday trains to Newquay.[11]
- Transport for Wales operate approximately hourly trains on a route to Maesteg, via Newport, Cardiff Central and Bridgend; TfW also run a service between Chepstow and Gloucester.[12]
Preceding station | National Rail | Following station | ||
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Gloucester | Transport for Wales Maesteg - Cheltenham |
Terminus | ||
Gloucester | CrossCountry Cardiff – Nottingham |
Worcestershire Parkway or Ashchurch for Tewkesbury | ||
Bristol Parkway | CrossCountry South West – North East and Scotland |
Birmingham New Street | ||
CrossCountry Bristol – Manchester |
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Gloucester | Great Western Railway Cheltenham – London/Swindon |
Terminus | ||
Gloucester | Great Western Railway Great Malvern – Westbury |
Ashchurch for Tewkesbury | ||
Disused railways | ||||
Badgeworth
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Birmingham and Gloucester Railway |
Swindon (Glos) | ||
Churchdown | Midland Railway | Cheltenham High Street | ||
Terminus | Great Western Railway Midland and South Western Junction Railway |
Leckhampton Line and station closed | ||
Proposed Heritage railways | ||||
Cheltenham Malvern Road Line and station closed |
Gloucestershire Warwickshire Railway | Terminus |
Redevelopment proposals
In early 2012, Cheltenham Council released a concept statement promoting various enhancements at the station.[13] In March 2013, the Gloucestershire Local Transport Body (LTB) asked for bids from the local area for transport projects which could be funded in the period 2015 to 2019. A proposal to significantly enhance the station with new passenger facilities, and install a new south-facing bay platform to enable trains to reverse and increase capacity, was put forward.[citation needed]
During the development phase of the submission, it was found that two new bay platforms were required. This configuration formed the basis of a station regeneration proposal that was submitted to the Gloucestershire Local Transport Body for consideration in early March 2013. Following short-listing to stage 2, a second funding proposal was submitted in May 2013. Proposals for the station and various other transport schemes were published for public consultation on the LTB website in the same month,[citation needed] and the LTB allocated £3.3 million to the scheme, which had an estimated total cost of £20 million.[14]
In February 2014, the scheme was shelved after both
References
- ^ a b "Cheltonia: The curiosities of Cheltenham Spa, past and present". Archived from the original on 13 October 2016. Retrieved 14 August 2016.
- ^ "Cheltonia: The curiosities of Cheltenham Spa, past and present". Archived from the original on 13 October 2016. Retrieved 14 August 2016.
- ISBN 1-85260-508-1. R508.
- ^ a b "1871–1879 Coaching". Midland Railway Operating, Traffic and Coaching Depts: 338. 1871. Retrieved 31 May 2021.
- ^ "Mr. Turnbull and the Midland Railway". Cheltenham Chronicle. England. 27 February 1872. Retrieved 31 May 2021 – via British Newspaper Archive.
- ^ a b c "1899-1908 Coaching; Piece 1027". Midland Railway Operating, Traffic and Coaching Depts: 135. 1899. Retrieved 31 May 2021.
- ^ "Country Notes". Northampton Mercury. England. 7 August 1914. Retrieved 26 December 2021 – via British Newspaper Archive.
- ^ "Stationmaster leaving Cheltenham". Cheltenham Chronicle. England. 1 September 1928. Retrieved 31 May 2021 – via British Newspaper Archive.
- ^ "Presentation to Green Ayre Stationmaster". Lancaster Guardian. England. 8 June 1956. Retrieved 24 December 2021 – via British Newspaper Archive.
- ^ "Train Times". Great Western Railway. 10 December 2023. Retrieved 27 January 2024.
- ^ "Timetables". CrossCountry. 10 December 2023. Retrieved 27 January 2024.
- ^ "Timetables". Transport for Wales. 10 December 2023. Retrieved 27 January 2024.
- ^ Cheltenham Spa railway station concept statement Archived 3 September 2012 at the Wayback MachineCheltenham Borough Council website; Retrieved 21 March 2015
- ^ a b Maidment, Jack (4 February 2014). "Plans for two new platforms at Cheltenham Spa railway station controversially shelved". Gloucestershire Echo. Archived from the original on 2 April 2015 – via Internet Archive.