Stroud historian Howard Beard remembers one of Stroud's lost stations
DUDBRIDGE Station, on the six mile long branch line known originally as the Stonehouse and Nailsworth Railway, was opened in 1867.
It later became part of the Midland Railway and, in 1885, a spur was created from Dudbridge to Stroud’s Wallbridge Station at Cheapside.
The entire system has now gone, closed to passengers in 1947 and to goods in 1966.
Dudbridge Station buildings, which included a re-used Victorian railway carriage, were demolished around 1990 and replaced by the Sainsbury’s roundabout.
One platform wall remains.
The route of the railway can still be followed along both the Nailsworth and Stonehouse cycle tracks.
These copies of photos of the station staff and also the siding, which allowed trucks access into Kimmins Mill, were given me by the late Eileen Halliday.
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