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The Hereford, Ross and Gloucester Railway was a railway which ran for 22 + 1 ⁄ 2 miles (36.2 km) linking Hereford and Gloucester, England, via Ross-on-Wye. It was opened on 1 June 1855 as a 7 ft 1 ⁄ 4 in ( 2,140 mm ) broad gauge line, it was amalgamated with the Great Western Railway in 1862.
Hereford railway station serves the city of Hereford, in Herefordshire, England.Managed by Transport for Wales, it lies on the Welsh Marches Line between Leominster and Abergavenny, is the western terminus of the Cotswold Line and also has an hourly West Midlands Trains service from Birmingham New Street.
A joint opening with the Shrewsbury and Hereford Railway took place on 6 December 1853. The company was taken over by the West Midland Railway in 1860, which became part of the Great Western Railway in 1863. The main Hereford station and headquarters of the Newport to Hereford line was Hereford Barton railway station to the west of the city ...
Great Western Railway re-introduced [when?] a named Cathedrals Express service Mondays to Fridays between Hereford and London Paddington via Worcester and Oxford. The train departs Hereford at 06:42, returning from London Paddington at 18:22 and is currently operated by a Class 800. [5]
As far as passenger services were concerned, as well as trains from Cardiff and Newport to the Hereford and Shrewsbury line, a developing traffic ran from Bristol and the West of England after the opening of the Severn Tunnel in 1886 northwards from Maindee East Junction through Hereford. This enabled trains to reach the River Mersey (at ...
The Hereford station of the NA&HR was at Barton, on the west side of the city. The site was cramped, and the entry of Shrewsbury and Hereford line trains caused congestion. When the Hereford, Ross and Gloucester Railway opened on 1 June 1855 it approached the city from the south-east, and it used the Barrs Court station, on the east side of the ...
System map of the Coleford, Monmouth, Usk and Pontypool Railway. On 2 January 1854 the Newport, Abergavenny and Hereford Railway opened its main line. It was a north–south trunk route from Hereford, in fact connecting with the Monmouthshire Railway and Canal Company near Pontypool for the final approach to Newport.
The trains used the Hereford, Ross and Gloucester Railway station at Ross-on-Wye and the Troy station at Monmouth. Its own intermediate stations were Kerne Bridge, Lydbrook, Symonds Yat and Monmouth May Hill. Two halts were added later: at Walford, opened in 1931, and at Hadnock, opened in 1951.