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A 1910 Railway Clearing House map of railways in the vicinity of Cheltenham Spa (shown here as Queen's Road, Lansdown) Former MR Johnson 1P 2-4-0 20216 at Cheltenham Spa station in July 1949. The first railway to Cheltenham was the broad-gauge Cheltenham and Great Western Union Railway (C&GWUR), authorised by Act of Parliament in 1836, and ...
The first station was opened by the Cheltenham and Great Western Union Railway (C&GWU) on 23 October 1847, as Cheltenham. [1] It was the terminus of the final section of that company's line from a junction with the Great Western Railway (GWR) at Swindon, which had opened in stages: to Kemble (and Cirencester) on 31 May 1841; to Gloucester on 12 May 1845, and finally to Cheltenham on 23 October ...
A photo of the surviving platform on the Honeybourne walk as of 2022. As of October 2018, the site is now a housing estate of some 100 homes.A long-term goal of the Gloucestershire Warwickshire Railway is to extend their services towards the present station at Cheltenham Spa (Lansdown) (with the intention of offering interchange with rail services on the Cross Country Route), which would ...
The station was situated on the main Birmingham to Bristol railway line, to the south of the bridge where the line passes beneath Tewkesbury Road in Cheltenham, which is a continuation of, but quite remote from that known as the High Street.
Cheltenham railway station or Cheltenham station may refer to: Cheltenham station (Metra) in Chicago, Illinois, United States; Cheltenham station (SEPTA) in ...
From 1891 the station was also served by trains on the Midland and South Western Junction Railway line, which branched off the Banbury and Cheltenham line at Andoversford, forming a north–south link from Cheltenham to Swindon, Andover and the south coast. The M&SWJR had running rights over the GWR line.
Access to the station by car is only via the main racecourse entrance. There is a large free car park. A bus service runs from the Network Rail Cheltenham Spa station, through the town centre to the Racecourse Park and Ride, about 10 minutes' walk from the Gloucestershire Warwickshire Steam Railway station. [10]
Cheltenham High Street Halt was a railway station on the Great Western Railway's Honeybourne Line between Cheltenham and Birmingham via Stratford-upon-Avon.It opened on 1 October 1908 and closed on 30 April 1917 due to the First World War, never to be reopened.