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The 'Cheltenham and Great Western Union Railway' was a broad gauge railway that linked the Great Western Railway at Swindon, Wiltshire, with Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, England.

The line between Cheltenham and Gloucester was worked jointly with the Birmingham and Gloucester Railway; that between Gloucester and Standish Junction was worked jointly with the Bristol and Gloucester Railway. Both these railways became part of the Midland Railway and caused Isambard Kingdom Brunel to lay down mixed gauge tracks along this section of line before any of his other broad gauge railways. Despite this joint working, the stations were generally independent with the individual railways providing duplicate facilities at Cheltenham, Gloucester and Stonehouse.

Contents

Chronology

Stations

References

Chronology

★ 1836 Authorised by Act of Parliament

★ 1840 Railway opened from Cheltenham to Gloucester

★ 1841 Railway opened from Swindon to Cirencester

★ 1843 Railway company sold to Great Western Railway

★ 1845 Railway opened from Kemble to Gloucester leaving Cirencester on a short branch

★ 1847 Independent station opened at Cheltenham

Stations

''Includes stations opened by the Great Western Railway''

★ Swindon (Great Western Railway)

★ Purton

★ Minety and Ashton Keynes

★ Kemble

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★ Cirencester (1841)

★ Tetbury Road (1845)

★ Chalford (1897)

★ St Mary's Crossing Halt

★ Brinscombe (1845)

★ Brinscombe Bridge Halt

★ Ham Mill Crossing Halt

★ Bowbridge Crossing Halt

★ Stroud (1845)

★ Downfield Crossing Halt

★ Ebley Crossing Halt

★ Stonehouse (1845)

★ Gloucester (1840)

★ Cheltenham Lansdown Road (1840 - 1847, joint with Birmingham and Gloucester Railway)

★ Cheltenham Malvern Road

★ Cheltenham St James (1847)

References

★ The Brinscombe Bankers, , Mike, Fenton, British Railway Journal,

★ History of the Great Western Railway, volume I 1833-1863, , E T, MacDermot, Great Western Railway, ,