Gloucester–Newport line

Gloucester–Newport line
OHLE (Newport-Severn Tunnel Junction)
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Cross Country Route Gloucester River Severn Ledbury and Gloucester Railway Oakle Street Grange Court Hereford, Ross & Gloucester Rly Westbury-on-Severn Halt Newnham Ruddle Road Halt Forest of Dean Railway Awre for Blakeney Forest of Dean Central Railway Gatcombe Severn Railway Bridge Severn Bridge Sharpness branch line Lydney Junction │ Lydney Lydney Harbour Branch Dean Forest Railway (Severn and Wye Railway) Woolaston Wye Valley Railway Tutshill for Beachley Halt Chepstow East Chepstow Railway Bridge over River Wye England Wales Chepstow M48 motorway across Severn Bridge Bristol & South Wales Union Rly Portskewett (1863–1964) ("Portskewett Junction" 1863–1886) Portskewett (1850–1863) South Wales Main Line via Severn Tunnel Sudbrook Tunnel Pumps Caerwent Training Area Caldicot Severn Tunnel Junction M4 motorway Undy Halt Magor Llanwern steelworks Llanwern Uskmouth Power Station Welsh Marches line River Usk Monmouthshire Railway Newport South Wales Main Line

The Gloucester–Newport line is a railway line that runs along the west bank of the River Severn in the United Kingdom between Gloucester and Newport.

Originally part of the South Wales Railway on the main route from London before the construction of the Severn Tunnel; today it is an important link between the West Midlands and South Wales.

Route

The places served by the route are:

• Gloucester
  • Connections along the Golden Valley line to Swindon
• Lydney
  • Connection with Dean Forest Railway
• Chepstow
• Caldicot
• Severn Tunnel Junction located in Rogiet
• Newport
  • Connections with South Wales Main Line and Welsh Marches line

Local passenger services are currently provided by Transport for Wales, with an approximately hourly service in each direction on the Cheltenham Spa to Maesteg service. These are supplemented by CrossCountry services between Cardiff Central and Nottingham, which serve Gloucester and Newport, serving either Lydney or Chepstow then fast to Newport for example. The intermediate stations are omitted except during the early morning and late evening.

Although

• On 16 February 1880, a freight train was derailed when it was in collision with a large rock that had fallen onto the line 1.5 miles (2.4 km) south of Chepstow station, Monmouthshire.^[3]

References

Sources

• Anonymous (Winter 1979). Railway Electrification. British Railways Board (Central Publicity Unit). pp. 0–2, 8.
• ISBN 0-906899-05-2
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• Dudley Mall - Railway directory - Cheltenham Spa to Cardiff Central