- Cerney and Ashton Keynes railway station
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Cerney and Ashton Keynes railway station was on the Midland and South Western Junction Railway in Gloucestershire. The station opened on 18 December 1883 on the Swindon and Cheltenham Extension Railway line from Swindon Town to the temporary terminus at Cirencester Watermoor. The S&CER line amalgamated in 1884 with the Swindon, Marlborough and Andover Railway to form the M&SWJR, and through services beyond Cirencester to the junction at Andoversford with the Great Western Railway's Cheltenham Lansdown to Banbury line, which had opened in 1881, started in 1891.
Cerney and Ashton Keynes station was just outside the village of South Cerney and about 2.5 miles north east of Ashton Keynes. In 1905, the Great Western Railway's Minety station on the Swindon to Kemble line was renamed as "Minety and Ashton Keynes": it was about the same distance south west of Ashton Keynes.
The two stations were not in nominal competition for long, however. Cerney and Ashton Keynes was renamed as simply "Cerney" after 1910 and then, after the GWR had absorbed the M&SWJR at the Grouping in 1923, as "South Cerney".
Passenger traffic at the station was never high, but there was a lot of goods activity associated with the local gravel pits. As a whole, traffic on the M&SWJR fell steeply after the Second World War and the line closed to passengers in 1961, with goods facilities at South Cerney being withdrawn in July 1963. No trace of the station now remains as houses have been built on the site, though the line remains in use as a cycle path.
Route
Preceding station Disused railways Following station Cirencester Watermoor Midland and South Western Junction Railway
Swindon & Cheltenham Extension RailwayCricklade References
- Gloucestershire Railway Stations, Mike Oakley, Dovecote Press, Wimborne, 2003, ISBN 1-904349-24-2
Closed railway stations in eastern Gloucestershire Cheltenham and Great Western Union Railway Tetbury Road · Chalford · St Mary's Crossing Halt · Brimscombe · Brimscombe Bridge Halt · Ham Mill Halt · Bowbridge Crossing Halt · Downfield Crossing Halt · Cashes Green Halt · Ebley Crossing Halt · Churchdown · Cheltenham Spa Malvern Road · Cheltenham Spa St. JamesCirencester Branch Line Tetbury branch line Jackament's Bridge Halt · Rodmarton Platform · Church's Hill Halt · Culkerton · Trouble House Halt · TetburyMidland and South Western Junction Railway South Cerney · Cirencester Watermoor · Foss Cross · Chedworth Halt · Withington (Glos) · Andoversford and DowdeswellEast Gloucestershire Railway Lechlade · FairfordBanbury and Cheltenham Direct Railway Stow-on-the-Wold · Bourton-on-the-Water · Notgrove · Andoversford Junction · Charlton Kings · Cheltenham LeckhamptonOxford, Worcester and Wolverhampton Railway Honeybourne Line Cheltenham High Street Halt · Bishops Cleeve · Gretton Halt · Hayles Abbey Halt · Laverton Halt · Willersey Halt · Weston-sub-EdgeBristol and South Wales Union Railway Ashley Hill · Horfield · Filton · Filton Junction · Pilning Low Level · Cross Hands Halt · New Passage Halt · New Passage · New Passage PierBristol and Gloucester Railway St Philip's · Fishponds · Staple Hill · Mangotsfield · Wickwar · Charfield for Wootton-under-Edge · Berkeley Road · Coaley · Frocester · Stonehouse Bristol Road · Haresfield · Gloucester EastgateMangotsfield and Bath Branch Line Thornbury Branch Line Sharpness Branch Line Berkeley · SharpnessDursley and Midland Junction Railway Stonehouse and Nailsworth Railway Birmingham and Gloucester Railway Tewkesbury and Malvern Railway Coordinates: 51°40′23″N 1°55′09″W / 51.67311°N 1.91903°W
Categories:- Disused railway stations in Gloucestershire
- Former Midland and South Western Junction Railway stations
- Railway stations opened in 1883
- Railway stations closed in 1961
- Gloucestershire building and structure stubs
- South West England railway station stubs
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