Toddington railway station

Toddington
Platform 1 in 2008.
Location
Place	Toddington
Area	Tewkesbury
Grid reference	SP050323
Operations
Original company	Great Western Railway
Post-grouping	Great Western Railway Western Region of British Railways
Operated by	Gloucestershire Warwickshire Railway
Platforms	2
History
1 December 1904	Opened
7 March 1960	Closed to passengers
2 January 1967	Goods facilities withdrawn
22 April 1984	Reopened
Stations on heritage railways in the United Kingdom
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Toddington railway station serves the village of Toddington in Gloucestershire, England. Since 1984 it has been the main base of operations for the heritage Gloucestershire Warwickshire Railway.

The station is located on the Honeybourne Line which linked Cheltenham and Stratford-upon-Avon and which was opened by the Great Western Railway in 1906. The station was a centre of fruit and milk traffic, but receipts dwindled after a railwaymen's strike in 1955. The station closed to passengers in 1960, although the line itself remained open for freight and diversionary use until 1976; the track was lifted in 1979-80.

On 9 July 1859, the Oxford, Worcester and Wolverhampton Railway opened a line from Stratford-upon-Avon to Honeybourne. The OW&W became the West Midland Railway in 1860 and was acquired by Great Western Railway in 1883 with a view to combining it with the Birmingham to Stratford Line to create a high-speed route from the Midlands to the South West. The GWR obtained authorisation in 1899 for the construction of a double-track line between Honeybourne and Cheltenham and this was completed in stages by 1908.