East Gloucestershire Railway

The East Gloucestershire Railway was a British railway company based in Gloucestershire , England.

The company was founded on July 7, 1862. With the support of the Great Western Railway it was planned to build an 80 kilometer stretch from Witney via Faringdon and Andoversford to Cheltenham . However, the GWR got out soon after it was founded. Work started on the line at Andoversford was discontinued and only a 23-kilometer section to Fairford was built. The route opened on January 15, 1873. A planned extension to Cirencester was also not implemented. GWR took over the operation with a 50% share in the turnover. In Witney there was a transition to the railway line, also operated by the GWR, to Yarnton of the Witney Railway .

On September 1, 1890, the company was taken over by the Great Western Railway. 1906 test drives for the Automatic Train Control system were carried out on the line . Passenger traffic ceased on June 16, 1962. The route was finally closed on October 31, 1970.

literature

• Christopher Awdry: Encyclopaedia of British Railway Companies . Stephens, Wellingborough 1990, ISBN 1-85260-049-7 .
• Stanley .C. Jenkins: Fairford Branch The Witney and East Gloucestershire Railway . Oakwood Press, 1985, ISBN 978-0-85361-316-9 .

Web links

• History, information about the individual train stations ( Memento from July 19, 2007 in the Internet Archive )
• History, Maps ( Memento of March 10, 2002 in the Internet Archive )
• Info, current condition . Archived from the original on June 21, 2012. Retrieved September 20, 2013.