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Adlestrop railway station
Adlestrop railway station was a railway station which served the village of Adlestrop in Gloucestershire, England, between 1853 and 1966. It was on what is now called the Cotswold Line. The station was immortalised in the poem ''Adlestrop'' by Edward Thomas after his train stopped there on 24 June 1914.〔(【引用サイトリンク】work=Poets' Graves )〕〔Harvey, p.11.〕
==History==
Adlestrop station was opened on 4 June 1853 by the Oxford, Worcester and Wolverhampton Railway (OW&W) as part of the section of the Cotswold Line from Wolvercot Junction to . The line was originally mixed gauge single track throughout with a narrow gauge passing loop at . The line through Adlestrop was dualled on 2 August 1858, after the sections between Wolvercot - and Handborough to Charlbury were respectively doubled on 18 November 1853 and 1 August 1854. The station had a broad gauge passing loop, but the only broad gauge train to use it was the inspection special, two days before opening. Adlestrop served the rural villages of Oddington and Adlestrop, for which Adlestrop House was the major feature.
Facilities for goods traffic were on the 'up' side: a loading bank which could hold four wagons, a goods shed with a crane where a further three wagons could be held, with capacity for a further thirteen on the Worcester side of the shed. A signal box was added in 1907, which controlled access to the goods shed as well as to the refuge siding on the 'down' side which held 46 wagons. A 5-ton weighbridge was located on the 'up' side near the goods shed and main station building; this was replaced in 1938 by a 10-ton model which cost £160 (£}} in ). The down platform was long, while the up platform was shorter at . The main station building on the Up platform was timber-built and originally designed by Brunel, with the construction being completed by John Fowler. On the Down side a wooden waiting shelter was provided, behind which was the station house constructed in alternating courses of red and grey bricks.
On 1 January 1860 the OW&W became part of the West Midland Railway which, on 1 August 1863, was absorbed by the Great Western Railway. It then passed on to the Western Region of British Railways after nationalisation in 1948. British Railways closed Adlestrop to goods traffic on 26 August 1963 and to passenger traffic on 3 January 1966. The signal box closed on 27 April 1964 and the sidings were made redundant.
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