Cirencester Watermoor railway station

Cirencester Watermoor railway station was on the

Cirencester was the biggest station on this section of the line; it was home to the M&SWJR's locomotive and wagon workshops, and a large goods yard. There was also a huge water tank, atop a stone building on the up platform, which supplied water that was loaded into rail-mounted tankers and taken to the stone-crushing plant at Foss Cross, the next station to the north.

Despite the size of the station, Cirencester Watermoor never achieved the passenger or goods traffic that was attracted by the Great Western station in the town, Cirencester Town, and its status was further diminished when, following the Grouping of 1923, the M&SWJR line was allocated to the GWR, which promptly closed the workshops. The station was named "Cirencester Watermoor" from 1924 to distinguish it from the other station.

Passenger and goods traffic on the M&SWJR fell steeply after the Second World War and the line closed to passengers in 1961,^[1] with goods facilities being withdrawn in March 1964. No trace of the station now remains.^[2]

Route

References

• Gloucestershire Railway Stations, Mike Oakley, Dovecote Press, Wimborne, 2003,
  ISBN 1-904349-24-2

51°42′28″N 1°57′34″W / 51.70773°N 1.95943°W / 51.70773; -1.95943

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