Mitcheldean Road railway station

51°53′20″N 2°29′56″W / 51.8889°N 2.4989°W / 51.8889; -2.4989Grid referenceSO657212Platforms2Other informationStatusDisusedHistoryOriginal companyHereford, Ross and Gloucester RailwayPost-groupingGreat Western RailwayKey dates1855Station opens2 November 1964Station closes

v t e Hereford, Ross and Gloucester Railway
Legend
Welsh Marches line (S&HR) Cotswold Line (OW&WR) Hereford, Hay & Brecon Rly Hereford Barrs Court Hereford Barton River Wye Rotherwas Junction ROF Rotherwas Welsh Marches line NA&HR) Dinedor tunnel Holme Lacy Ballingham tunnel Ballingham Ballingham Bridge across the River Wye Fawley Tunnel Fawley River Wye Backney Halt River Wye Ross-on-Wye Ross and Monmouth Railway Weston under Penyard Halt Mitcheldean Road & Forest of Dean Junction Railway Mitcheldean Road Lea Line tunnel Longhope Blaisdon Halt Gloucester–Newport line (SWR) Grange Court Grange Court Junction Gloucester–Newport line (SWR)

Mitcheldean Road railway station was a railway station that served the town of Mitcheldean 1.5 miles (2.4 km) to the south and the village of Lea in Herefordshire. Opened in 1855 with the line it was located on the Great Western Railway line linking Ross-on-Wye and Gloucester.

In 1871 the Mitcheldean Road & Forest of Dean Junction Railway was formed to extend the line from Whimsey northwards to link up with the Hereford, Ross and Gloucester Railway at Mitcheldean Road, the line was taken over by the GWR in 1878 and completed, but never fully opened.

Nothing remains of the station and the site has been built over.^[1] The residential cul-de-sac which occupies the site is named Noden Drive after Reginald 'Dick' Noden who served as Station Master from the mid-1940s until the station's closure in 1964.^[2]

References

Further reading

• Mitchell, Vic; Smith, Keith (2008). Branch Lines around Ross-on-Wye. Middleton Press. figs. 46-53. ISBN 9781906008307. OCLC 370350430.

External links

• Mitcheldean Road on a navigable 1946 O. S. map
• Photographs of the station in use

Preceding station		Disused railways		Following station
Longhope		Hereford, Ross and Gloucester Railway British Railways		Weston under Penyard Halt