Toddington Railway Station near Winchcombe, Gloucestershire, England, UK
Toddington railway station serves the village of Toddington in Gloucestershire, England. Since 1984 it has been the main base of operations for the heritage Gloucestershire Warwickshire Railway. The station is located on the Honeybourne Line which linked Cheltenham and Stratford-upon-Avon and which was opened by the Great Western Railway in 1906. The station was a centre of fruit and milk traffic, but receipts dwindled after a railwaymens' strike in 1954. The station closed to passengers in 1960, although the line itself remained open for freight and diversionary use until 1976; the track was lifted in 1979-80. The Gloucestershire Warwickshire Railway (GWR, GWSR or Gloucs-Warks Steam Railway) is a volunteer-run heritage railway which runs along the Gloucestershire/Worcestershire border. So far the GWR has reopened a total of 12 miles (along the closed railway line) between the site of Laverton Halt and Cheltenham Racecourse railway station and is currently extending to Broadway, Worcestershire. With the extension to Broadway, the line will be increased to a total of about 15 route miles by 2015, making the GWR the seventh longest Standard Gauge heritage railway in the UK
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