Gloucestershire Warwickshire Railway information

Gloucestershire Warwickshire Railway
Gloucestershire Warwickshire Railway
The Honeybourne Line
	GWR 2-8-0 28xx Class No. 2807 and its train are seen at Toddington
Locale	Gloucestershire,; Worcestershire England
Terminus	Cheltenham Race Course and; Broadway
Commercial operations
Name	The Honeybourne Line
Built by	Great Western Railway
Original gauge	4 ft 8+1⁄2 in (1,435 mm) standard gauge
Preserved operations
Operated by	Gloucestershire Warwickshire Steam Railway Plc
Stations	6
Length	14 miles (23 km)
Preserved gauge	4 ft 8+1⁄2 in (1,435 mm) standard gauge
Commercial history
Opened	1906
Closed	1976
Preservation history
1981	Gloucestershire Warwickshire Steam Railway Plc formed and track re-laying began
1984	First public service along relaid section of track between Toddington Station and (the site of) Hayles Abbey Halt
1987	GWR Extended to Winchcombe
1990	GWR Extended to (the site of) Gretton halt
1997	Extended to Gotherington
2003	Extended to Cheltenham Race Course
2011	GWR extends to (the site of) Laverton halt
2017	Hayles Abbey Halt reopens
2018	Extended to Broadway
Headquarters	Toddington, Gloucestershire

Gloucestershire
Warwickshire Railway

Legend

miles

^[1]

North Warwickshire Line

to Birmingham Snow Hill

Alcester branch line

Leamington–Stratford line

32.8

Wilmcote

Stratford-upon-Avon

Parkway

29.1

Stratford-upon-Avon

Evesham Road Crossing Halt

1904

1916

Stratford & Midland Junction Railway

to Broom Junction│to Fenny Compton

Stratford Racecourse Platform

Chambers Crossing Halt

1904

1916

26.1

Milcote

23.5

Long Marston

Long Marston Depot

Warwickshire

Worcestershire

boundary

Broad Marston Halt

1904

1916

Pebworth Halt

Cotswold Line

to Worcester Shrub Hill

21.1

Honeybourne

Cotswold Line

to Oxford

Worcestershire

Gloucestershire

boundary

18.8

Weston-sub-Edge

Willersley Halt

16.1

Broadway

Worcestershire

Gloucestershire

boundary

Laverton Halt

Stanway Viaduct

11.6

Toddington

Toddington Narrow Gauge Railway

Hayles Abbey Halt

9.0

Winchcombe

Greet Tunnel

693 yd

634 m

7.6

Gretton Halt

5.6

Gotherington

4.1

Bishops Cleeve

2.3

Cheltenham Racecourse

Hunting Butts Tunnel

97 yd

89 m

Cheltenham High Street Halt

Cheltenham St James

Cheltenham Malvern Road

Cross Country Route

to Birmingham New Street

0.0

Cheltenham Spa (Lansdown)

Lansdown Junction

Cross Country Route

to Bristol Parkway

The Gloucestershire Warwickshire Steam Railway (GWR, GWSR or Gloucs-Warks Steam Railway) is a volunteer-run heritage railway which runs along the Gloucestershire/Worcestershire border of the Cotswolds in England.

The GWSR has restored and reopened around 14 miles (23 km) of track, operating between Cheltenham Race Course and Broadway. The most recent extension to Broadway (completed in 2018) involved the company raising £1.38 million. The 28-mile return trip on steam and heritage diesel trains follows part of the route of the former Great Western main line from Birmingham to Cheltenham.^[2] There is a long-term aim of extending a further 6 miles (9.7 km) from Broadway to the national rail network at Honeybourne.

^ Railway Magazine December 1957 p. 859
^ "Heritage Railway | Gloucestershire Railway | Gloucestershire Warwickshire Steam Railway". Gloucestershire Warwickshire Railway. Archived from the original on 7 March 2018. Retrieved 30 March 2018.

[1] Railway Magazine December 1957 p. 859

[2] "Heritage Railway | Gloucestershire Railway | Gloucestershire Warwickshire Steam Railway". Gloucestershire Warwickshire Railway. Archived from the original on 7 March 2018. Retrieved 30 March 2018.

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