Evesham and Redditch Railway

The Gloucester loop line was a railway line, operated by the Midland Railway which ran from Ashchurch to Barnt Green via Redditch and Evesham, avoiding the main line via Bromsgrove. The line has been entirely dismantled, apart from the section from Redditch to Barnt Green, which forms the southern part of the Cross-City Line, and a tiny stub of track at Ashchurch serving the Ministry of Defence depot. The line was opened in 1866, services were withdrawn in 1962, the line was officially closed in 1964 and the track lifted in 1965.

In July 1858 the Redditch Railway Act authorised a line to link Redditch with the Midland Railway's Birmingham and Gloucester line at Barnt Green. The Redditch Railway opened on 18 September 1859 but was operated from the start by the Midland Railway.

In 1868 the Evesham and Redditch Railway built a line south from Redditch through Evesham to a junction at Ashchurch. There were intermediate stations between Redditch and Evesham at Studley and Astwood Bank, Coughton, Alcester, Wixford, Broom Junction (for the Stratford-upon-Avon and Midland Junction Railway), Salford Priors, and Harvington.

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