Gloucester Eastgate railway station

Gloucester Eastgate
Gloucester Eastgate in 1963
Location
Place	Gloucester
Area	Gloucester
Grid reference	SO838183
Operations
Original company	Midland Railway
Pre-grouping	Midland Railway
Post-grouping	London, Midland and Scottish Railway
Platforms	4
History
12 April 1896 (1896-04-12)	Opened as Gloucester
17 September 1951	Renamed Gloucester Eastgate
1 December 1975 (1975-12-01)	Closed
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Gloucester Eastgate railway station was a station in Gloucester, England, used by trains from Birmingham to Bristol. Originally the Birmingham and Gloucester Railway (which later became part of the Midland Railway) used a terminus station roughly on the site of the current Gloucester station car park.

History

A 1910 Railway Clearing House map of railways in the vicinity of Gloucester Eastgate (shown here as MID PASS)

In 1896 a new through station was constructed on the Tuffley Loop line on a site that had previously housed the Midland Railway engine shed. The station, originally known simply as Gloucester, opened on 12 April 1896;^[1] it had three through platforms and one bay. It was sharply curved and featured a main entrance building as well as buildings on both platforms. Buildings were of typical Midland Railway design in red brick with terracotta decoration. Extensive cast-iron and glass ridge-and-furrow awnings covered the platforms. There was a direct footbridge connection to the ex-Great Western Railway Gloucester Central station.

Gloucester Eastgate in 1963

Following Nationalisation, the station was renamed Gloucester Eastgate on 17 September 1951,^[2] to distinguish it from the nearby ex-GWR station, Gloucester Central.

Gloucester Eastgate

After 1968, the station was rationalised. The island platform was lengthened at the southern end and the tracks were removed from the other two platforms. The extensive goods yard and sidings were also lifted at this time. Colour-light track-circuit block signalling was installed, and the station was effectively merged with Gloucester Central.

Eastgate station was closed on 1 December 1975,^[3] along with the Tuffley Loop. This was partly an attempt by British Rail to cut maintenance costs and partly a result of pressure from the road lobby and local councillors who wanted to rid Gloucester of four of its level crossings. Services that had previously called at Eastgate now had to perform a reversal at Central station, an operational inconvenience that has led to fewer trains calling at Gloucester. As the rebuilt Gloucester Central station was not completed until 1977, the administrative offices on Eastgate station lingered on in use for nearly two more years until demolition came in 1977. The site is now an Asda supermarket. Only a very few traces of the former Tuffley Loop can now be found.

Routes

Preceding station	Disused railways			Following station
Haresfield Line open, station closed		Midland Railway Tuffley Loop		Churchdown Line open, station closed

Notes

↑ Butt 1995, p. 104.
↑ Butt 1995, pp. 104,105.
↑ Butt 1995, p. 105.

References

Butt, R.V.J. (1995). The Directory of Railway Stations. Yeovil: Patrick Stephens Ltd. ISBN 1-85260-508-1. R508.

External links

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°51′48″N 2°14′12″W / 51.8632°N 2.2367°W / 51.8632; -2.2367

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