Mitcheldean Road & Forest of Dean Junction Railway

Mitcheldean Road & Forest of Dean Junction Railway
Legend Mitcheldean Roadon the Hereford, Ross and Gloucester Railway Bailey Level gold mine Lea Bailey Light Railway Hawthorns Tunnel Drybrook Quarry Drybrook Tunnel Drybrook Halt Nailbridge Halt Steam Mills Crossing Halt Whimsey Halt to Churchway Colliery to Lydney and Cinderford New (Severn & Wye Railway) to Newnham

A bridge carrying the road from Lea Bailey to Drybrook over the former trackbed of the Railway

South portal of the 638 yards (583 m) Hawthorns Tunnel at Drybrook.

Railways and Canals of the Forest of Dean
Railways legend Waterways legend
Hereford, Ross and Gloucester Railway Mitcheldean Road Ross and Monmouth Railway Hereford, Ross and Gloucester Railway Lydbrook Junction Mitcheldean Road and Forest of Dean Jn Ry Drybrook Quarry Drybrook Halt Nailbridge Halt Lower Lydbrook Steam Mills Crossing Halt Upper Lydbrook Churchway Colliery Whimsey Halt Mineral Loop Drybrook Road Coleford Railway Serridge Platform Cinderford New Wimberry Quarry Whitecliff Quarry Speech House Road Bilson Halt Bicslade Tramroad Ruspidge Halt Bicslade Wharf Staple Edge Halt Eastern United Colliery Coleford (CR) Upper Soudley Halt Coleford (S&WR) Bullo Cross Halt Gloucester to Newport Line Milkwall Newnham Parkhill Colliery Ruddle Road Halt New Fancy Colliery Howbeach Colliery Parkend Forest of Dean Central Railway Whitecroft Awre for Blakeney Tufts Junction & Mineral Loop Norchard River Severn Middle Forge Junction Lydney Town Severn Railway Bridge Severn Bridge Gloucester and Sharpness Canal St Mary's Halt Sharpness Lydney Junction Sharpness Docks Lydney Sharpness Branch Line Upper Forge Lydney Harbour Pidcock's Canal Lydney Canal Lower Forge Gloucester to Newport Line River Severn

The Mitcheldean Road & Forest of Dean Junction Railway (MR&FoDJR) was a railway which ran for 3 ¹⁄₄ miles (5.2 km) from the former Mitcheldean Road railway station on the Hereford, Ross and Gloucester Railway to a junction at Whimsey near Cinderford.

On 6 August 1880 the company was acquired by the Great Western Railway^[1] which completed the line but never opened it to traffic.

The line was later lifted beyond Drybook, although a small section between Drybrook Halt and Drybrook Quarry was relaid in 1928. Drybrook Halt was the northern terminus of a GWR railmotor service from Newnham which ran from 1907 to 1930. The line was closed again in 1952.^[2]

A short section of the trackbed at the northern end is used by the narrow gauge Lea Bailey Light Railway.

References

1. "Railway Companies acquired by the Great Western". Retrieved 25 June 2014.
2. "Lea Bailey Light Railway - MR&FoDJR". Retrieved 25 June 2014.

External links

• Mitcheldean Road & Forest of Dean Junction Railway page at the Lea Bailey Light Railway website