Cheltenham Leckhampton railway station

Cheltenham Leckhampton
Site of Cheltenham Leckhampton station in 1987
Location
Place	Leckhampton
Area	Cheltenham
Grid reference	SO948204
Operations
Original company	Banbury and Cheltenham Direct Railway
Pre-grouping	Great Western Railway
Post-grouping	GWR
Platforms	2
History
1 June 1881 (1881-06-01)	Opened as Leckhampton
1 May 1906	Renamed Cheltenham South and Leckhampton
April 1952	Renamed Cheltenham Leckhampton
15 October 1962	Closed
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Cheltenham Leckhampton railway station in Gloucestershire served the village of Leckhampton and the southern outskirts of Cheltenham Spa.

History

A 1910 Railway Clearing House map of railways in the vicinity of Cheltenham South and Leckhampton

Railways around Cheltenham

Legend

to Birmingham

Gloucs-Warks Railway

to Gloucester

Leckhampton

Banbury & Cheltenham

Direct Railway

The station began operating in 1881 with the opening of the Bourton-on-the-Water to Cheltenham section of the Banbury and Cheltenham Direct Railway. This was run by the Great Western Railway which thereafter took over full responsibility for it.

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.

The station was originally called Leckhampton, acquiring its longer name in 1906. This was due to the through express train service between Newcastle and Swansea that was routed along the Banbury to Cheltenham line: the express did not pass through any of the main Cheltenham stations, and the renaming of Leckhampton was intended to show passengers that there was a Cheltenham service on the train. It was renamed Cheltenham Leckhampton in 1952.

It was a small station with a brick building. The line through it was particularly busy during the First World War and the Second World War with heavy troop and machinery movements on the M&SWJR. Traffic declined rapidly thereafter.

The M&SWJR line closed to passenger traffic in September 1961, and services on the Banbury to Cheltenham line were withdrawn on 15 October 1962, when the station closed. The site of the station is now occupied by Leckhampton Place, a residential development, and Liddington Park Industrial Estate; both accessed via Old Station Drive.

Preceding station	Disused railways			Following station
Cheltenham Lansdown Line closed, station open		Great Western Railway Midland and South Western Junction Railway		Charlton Kings Line and station closed
Cheltenham (Malvern Road) Line and station closed		Great Western Railway Banbury and Cheltenham Direct Railway		Charlton Kings Line and station closed

References

Mike Oakley, Gloucestershire Railway Stations, 2003, Dovecote Press, Wimborne, ISBN 1-904349-24-2, pp41–42

Closed railway stations in eastern Gloucestershire

Cheltenham and Great Western Union Railway	Tetbury Road Chalford St Mary's Crossing Halt Brimscombe Brimscombe Bridge Halt Ham Mill Halt Bowbridge Crossing Halt Downfield Crossing Halt Cashes Green Halt Ebley Crossing Halt Churchdown Cheltenham Spa Malvern Road Cheltenham Spa St. James

Cirencester Branch Line	Park Leaze Halt Chesterton Lane Halt Cirencester Town

Tetbury branch line	Jackament's Bridge Halt Rodmarton Platform Church's Hill Halt Culkerton Trouble House Halt Tetbury

Midland and South Western Junction Railway	South Cerney Cirencester Watermoor Foss Cross Chedworth Halt Withington (Glos) Andoversford and Dowdeswell

East Gloucestershire Railway	Lechlade Fairford

Banbury and Cheltenham Direct Railway	Stow-on-the-Wold Bourton-on-the-Water Notgrove Andoversford Junction Charlton Kings Cheltenham Leckhampton

Oxford, Worcester and Wolverhampton Railway	Adlestrop Blockley Chipping Campden Mickleton Halt

Honeybourne Line	Cheltenham High Street Halt Bishops Cleeve Gretton Halt Hayles Abbey Halt Laverton Halt Willersey Halt Weston-sub-Edge

Bristol and South Wales Union Railway	Ashley Hill Horfield Filton Filton Junction Pilning Low Level Cross Hands Halt New Passage Halt New Passage New Passage Pier

Bristol and Gloucester Railway	St Philip's Fishponds Staple Hill Mangotsfield Wickwar Charfield Berkeley Road Coaley Frocester Stonehouse Bristol Road Haresfield Gloucester Eastgate

Mangotsfield and Bath Branch Line	Warmley

Thornbury Branch Line	Iron Acton Tytherington Thornbury

Sharpness Branch Line	Berkeley Sharpness

Dursley and Midland Junction Railway	Cam Dursley

Stonehouse and Nailsworth Railway	Ryeford Dudbridge Stroud Woodchester Nailsworth

Birmingham and Gloucester Railway	Cleeve Cheltenham High Street Badgworth Churchdown

Tewkesbury and Malvern Railway	Tewkesbury

Coordinates: 51°52′59″N 2°04′40″W / 51.88307°N 2.07777°W / 51.88307; -2.07777

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