Foss Cross railway station
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Foss Cross railway station was on the Midland and South Western Junction Railway
in Gloucestershire
. The station opened on 1 August 1891 with the section of the line between Cirencester Watermoor
and the junction at Andoversford
with the Great Western Railway
's Cheltenham Lansdown
to Banbury
line, which had opened in 1881.
Foss Cross was an isolated station, and the nearest village was Chedworth
, over a mile away, and that petitioned successfully for its own station
, which opened just a year later. Other villages such as Bibury
were up to four miles away. The result was that the station was very lightly used for passenger traffic and towards the end of its life that only one passenger a day used it regularly.
However, what it lacked in passengers it made up in goods traffic. The station handled a lot of agricultural traffic until the 1930s and there was also a set of sidings leading to stone quarries. Some of the stone was used by the railway, and water from the large water tower at Cirencester Watermoor station was hauled regularly to Foss Cross sidings in rail-mounted tankers to supply the stone crushing equipment located there.
Foss Cross station closed to both passengers and goods when the line closed to all traffic in 1961. The main station building and part of the platform remained in 2002.
Midland and South Western Junction Railway
The Midland and South Western Junction Railway was, until the 1923 Grouping, an independent railway built to form a north-south link between the Midland and London and South Western Railways allowing the Midland and other companies' trains to reach the port of Southampton.-Formation:The M&SWJR...
in Gloucestershire
Gloucestershire
Gloucestershire is a county in South West England. The county comprises part of the Cotswold Hills, part of the flat fertile valley of the River Severn, and the entire Forest of Dean....
. The station opened on 1 August 1891 with the section of the line between Cirencester Watermoor
Cirencester Watermoor railway station
Cirencester Watermoor railway station was on the Midland and South Western Junction Railway at Cirencester in Gloucestershire. The station opened on 18 December 1883 as the terminus of the Swindon and Cheltenham Extension Railway line from Swindon Town. That line then amalgamated with the Swindon,...
and the junction at Andoversford
Andoversford railway station
Andoversford railway station was in Gloucestershire on the Great Western Railway's Banbury and Cheltenham Direct Railway that opened in 1881. Situated about six miles east of Cheltenham, the station served the village of Andoversford with its large market, which provided a lot of the traffic at the...
with the Great Western Railway
Great Western Railway
The Great Western Railway was a British railway company that linked London with the south-west and west of England and most of Wales. It was founded in 1833, received its enabling Act of Parliament in 1835 and ran its first trains in 1838...
's Cheltenham Lansdown
Cheltenham Spa railway station
Cheltenham Spa railway station is in Gloucestershire, England, on the Bristol-Birmingham main line. It is managed by First Great Western and is about one mile from the town centre.-History:...
to Banbury
Banbury railway station
Banbury railway station serves the town of Banbury in Oxfordshire, England. The station is currently operated by Chiltern Railways, on the Chiltern Main Line, and has four platforms in use.-History:...
line, which had opened in 1881.
Foss Cross was an isolated station, and the nearest village was Chedworth
Chedworth
Chedworth is a village in Gloucestershire, in the Cotswolds and best known as the location of Chedworth Roman Villa, administered since 1924 by the National Trust.- Roman villa :...
, over a mile away, and that petitioned successfully for its own station
Chedworth railway station
Chedworth railway station was on the Midland and South Western Junction Railway in Gloucestershire. The station opened on 1 October 1892, 14 months after the opening of the section of the line between Cirencester Watermoor and the junction at Andoversford with the Great Western Railway's Cheltenham...
, which opened just a year later. Other villages such as Bibury
Bibury
Bibury is a village and civil parish in Gloucestershire, England. It is situated on the River Coln, about northeast of Cirencester.The Church of England parish church of Saint Mary is Saxon with altar additions...
were up to four miles away. The result was that the station was very lightly used for passenger traffic and towards the end of its life that only one passenger a day used it regularly.
However, what it lacked in passengers it made up in goods traffic. The station handled a lot of agricultural traffic until the 1930s and there was also a set of sidings leading to stone quarries. Some of the stone was used by the railway, and water from the large water tower at Cirencester Watermoor station was hauled regularly to Foss Cross sidings in rail-mounted tankers to supply the stone crushing equipment located there.
Foss Cross station closed to both passengers and goods when the line closed to all traffic in 1961. The main station building and part of the platform remained in 2002.