Winchcombe railway station
| Winchcombe | |
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Main station building in 2005.
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| Location | |
| Place | Greet |
| Area | Tewkesbury |
| Coordinates | 51°57′59″N 1°57′48″W / 51.96645°N 1.96345°WCoordinates: 51°57′59″N 1°57′48″W / 51.96645°N 1.96345°W |
| Grid reference | SP027297 |
| 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 February 1905 | Opened |
| 7 March 1960 | Closed to passengers |
| 2 November 1964 | Goods facilities withdrawn |
| 2 August 1987 | Reopened |
| Stations on heritage railways in the United Kingdom | |
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Winchcombe railway station serves Winchcombe in Gloucestershire, England, although it is actually located in the village of Greet. It 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 closed to passengers in 1960, although the line itself remained open for freight and diversionary use until 1976, when a freight train derailed near Winchcombe and damaged the track.
By the late 1970s, the line had been dismantled. The stretch between Toddington and Cheltenham Racecourse, including Winchcombe, has since been reconstructed and reopened by the heritage Gloucestershire Warwickshire Railway. A new station has been erected at Winchcombe, on the site of the original building, the building being the former station at Monmouth Troy. Nearby is the 693-yard (634 m) Greet Tunnel, the second longest on any preserved line in Britain.
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.
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