Rodmarton Platform railway station

Rodmarton Platform
Location
Place	Rodmarton, Gloucestershire
Area	Cotswold
Operations
Original company	Great Western Railway
Post-grouping	Great Western Railway
Platforms	1
History
1904	opened
1964	closed
Disused railway stations in the United Kingdom
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Rodmarton Platform was a railway station serving the village of Rodmarton on the Tetbury branch line between Cirencester and Tetbury in Gloucestershire. The station opened on 1 September 1904 and closed in April 1964^[1] as a result of the Beeching Axe.

Rodmarton Platform was the first Great Western station to use the name "platform".^[1]^[2] The term originally came from Scottish railway stations was used by Great Western to describe stations smaller than fully-fledged stations but longer than halts, and ones that offered services such as ticket sales, mail transport and some light goods.^[1]

Rodmarton Platform was opened to serve the small village of Rodmarton, though the railway and station was sited some distance from the village.^[3]

Route

Preceding station	Disused railways			Following station
Jackaments Bridge Halt Line and station closed		Great Western Railway Tetbury branch line		Culkerton Halt Line and station closed

References

1 2 3 Herring, Peter (2004). Yesterday's railways (2004 ed.). Newton Abbot: David & Charles. p. 70. ISBN 0715317334.
↑ Lloyd, David (1981). "Cirencester and Tetbury Branches". me&im. Retrieved 9 December 2011.
↑ Atterbury, Paul (2006). Branch line Britain : a nostalgic journey celebrating a golden age. Newton Abbot: David & Charles. p. 128. ISBN 0715324160.

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°40′13″N 2°05′02″W / 51.6703°N 2.0839°W / 51.6703; -2.0839

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