Disused railway lines and closed stations in Gloucestershire

208 miles of disused railway
122 closed stations
15 stations open today
60 named lost lines

Gloucestershire has 208 miles of disused railway and 122 closed stations, against 15 stations still open today. More stations have closed here than remain: 8.1 lost for every one still served. The longest lost line is the Banbury and Cheltenham Direct Railway, with 21 miles of its route inside Gloucestershire.

See Gloucestershire’s lost railways on the map

The map opens on the county with the disused lines and closed stations drawn over today’s network. Tap any closed station for its history, or any grey line for its name.

What is left of it

The 208 miles of lost railway in Gloucestershire break down as 172 miles with the track lifted and the trackbed still traceable, 27 miles built over or ploughed out, with little or no trace left, 4.7 miles dismantled and 4.4 miles with track still in place but no trains. These are OpenStreetMap’s own distinctions, made by the people who surveyed each stretch, so a line can appear under more than one state along its length.

Lost railway lines in Gloucestershire

60 named lines with disused track in the county, longest stretch first. The mileage is the part inside Gloucestershire; a line crossing the border is counted on both sides.

Line	Miles in county
Banbury and Cheltenham Direct Railway	21
Gloucester & Ledbury Railway	15
Andoversford Line	8.4
Tetbury Branch	7.2
Mineral Loop	6.6
Forest of Dean Branch	6.5
Forest of Dean Central Railway	5.8
Nailsworth Branch	5.7
Bristol & Bath Railway Path	5.3
Hereford, Ross & Gloucester Railway	5.3
Severn and Wye Line	5.3
Severn and Wye Railway	4.3
Cirencester Branch	3.9
Coleford Railway	3.7
Severn Bridge Railway	3.7
Coleford Branch	3.6
Bristol and Gloucester Line	3.4
Cinderford Branch	3.4
Ashchurch and Malvern Line	3.4
Honeybourne and Cheltenham Line	3.0
Mangotsfield and Bath Branch Line	2.7
Moreton & Shipston Tramway	2.7
Avonmouth Branch	2.7
Avon and Gloucestershire Railway	2.5
Dursley Branch	2.5
Bristol and Gloucestershire Railway	2.2
Barnt Green Evesham and Ashchurch Line	2.1
Docks Branch West	2.0
Thornbury Branch Line	1.6
Berkeley Road Loop	1.2
Gloucester Llanthony Docks Branch	1.2
Coalpit Heath Colliery Branch	1.1
Frampton Cotterell Branch	1.1
Cheltenham Branch	1.1
Family Cycle Route	1.1
Severn and Wye Oakwood Branch	1.1
Stroud Branch	1.1
Chedworth Nature Reserve	1.0
Tuffley Branch	1.0
Peregrine Path	0.9

And 20 shorter stretches: Ross and Monmouth Railway, High Orchard Branch, New Passage Pier Line, Severn Bridge, Trafalgar Colliery, Milkwall Tramway, Parkend Royal Branch, Wye Valley Railway, Yate Branch (Down Loop Line), Honeybourne Line, Ministry of Works Loop, New Fancy Colliery Line, Hatherley Loop, Ring Road Path, Crumpmeadow Colliery, Mangotsfield South Loop, Wye Valley Greenway, Howlerslade Tramway, Bishops Wood Tramway and Cirencester Branch (abandoned).

Closed railway stations in Gloucestershire

All 122 closed and former stations in Gloucestershire, A to Z. Each name opens the map on the station; the Wikipedia link, where there is one, has its history.

Stations still open in Gloucestershire

15 stations in Gloucestershire still have a train service. The busiest are Cheltenham Spa (2.4 million a year), Bristol Parkway (2.3 million a year), Gloucester (1.8 million a year), Filton Abbey Wood (693,586 a year) and Stroud (655,356 a year). Every one has its own page, with the stations you can reach from it directly and how often the trains run: see the A to Z of stations.

Lost railways nearby

Bristol, Worcestershire, Wiltshire, Monmouthshire, Herefordshire, Oxfordshire, Warwickshire and Somerset.

About these figures

The disused lines are the stretches OpenStreetMap records as disused, abandoned, razed or dismantled railway, measured segment by segment and given to the county each segment lies in. The closed stations are Wikidata’s record of British railway stations no longer in service, kept where they are not within a few hundred metres of a station still open. County boundaries are today’s ceremonial counties, with unitary authorities folded into the county they sit in, from the Office for National Statistics (Open Government Licence v3.0; contains OS data © Crown copyright and database right 2024). Historic county lines were different, and a closed station a mile over the border is on the neighbouring page.

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