Mitcheldean Road railway station

Mitcheldean Road railway station was a railway station that served the town of Mitcheldean 1.5 miles (2.4 km) to the south and the village of Lea in Herefordshire. Opened in 1855 with the line it was located on the Great Western Railway line linking Ross-on-Wye and Gloucester.

Mitcheldean Road
Site of the former station in 2014
LocationLea, Herefordshire
England
Coordinates51.8889°N 2.4989°W / 51.8889; -2.4989
Grid referenceSO657212
Platforms2
Other information
StatusDisused
History
Original companyHereford, Ross and Gloucester Railway
Post-groupingGreat Western Railway
Key dates
1855Station opens
2 November 1964Station closes
Hereford, Ross
and Gloucester Railway
Hereford Barrs Court
Hereford Barton
Rotherwas Junction
ROF Rotherwas
Dinedor tunnel
Holme Lacy
Ballingham tunnel
Ballingham
Fawley Tunnel
Fawley
River Wye
Backney Halt
Ross-on-Wye
Weston under Penyard Halt
Mitcheldean Road
Lea Line tunnel
 Longhope
 Blaisdon Halt
Grange Court
Grange Court Junction

In 1871 the Mitcheldean Road & Forest of Dean Junction Railway was formed to extend the line from Whimsey northwards to link up with the Hereford, Ross and Gloucester Railway at Mitcheldean Road, the line was taken over by the GWR in 1878 and completed, but never fully opened.

Nothing remains of the station and the site has been built over.[1] The residential cul-de-sac which occupies the site is named Noden Drive after Reginald 'Dick' Noden who served as Station Master from the mid-1940s until the station's closure in 1964.[2]

References
  1. Youles, A (2002) 'Tramroad Remains in the Forest of Dean (Part Two)' in Gloucestershire Society for Industrial Archaeology Journal, 2002. P39.
  2. "Ross-on-Wye - Ross to Grange Court". Retrieved 16 March 2014.

Further reading
  • Mitchell, Vic; Smith, Keith (2008). Branch Lines around Ross-on-Wye. Middleton Press. figs. 46-53. ISBN 9781906008307. OCLC 370350430.
Former Services
Preceding station   Disused railways   Following station
Longhope   Hereford, Ross and Gloucester Railway
British Railways		   Weston under Penyard Halt
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