Tewkesbury and Malvern Railway
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The Tewkesbury and Malvern Railway was a branch of the
London Midland and Scottish Railway
.
Connections
It connected with the
Worcester & Hereford Railway and the Birmingham and Gloucester Railway
.
Structures
There were two significant
River Avon at Tewkesbury (62 yards or 57 metres) and over the River Severn at Saxons Lode (145 yards or 133 metres) with five spans and a sliding centre section to allow tall masted ships to pass). There was also a 420-yard (380-metre) tunnel and a long embankment and viaduct over a floodplain at The Mythe near Tewkesbury. The embankment, viaducts and remaining bridges were demolished in 2013 as part of the Tewkesbury area flooding improvement works with the bricks being reused in the reconstruction of the Gloucestershire Warwickshire Railway Broadway station. In 1961 a bridge over the M50 motorway was erected – as of 2012 this bridge has been removed & moved to the Bluebell Railway
.
Closure
The section of line from Malvern to Upton-upon-Severn was closed in December 1952. The remainder closed to passengers on 14 August 1961. Freight continued to operate to Upton until July 1963 as far as Tewkesbury until December 1964.[1]
References
- ^ "Upton's Railway Station"Welcome to Upton on Severn; Retrieved 28 September 2016
External links
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