Monmouth Troy
The former Monmouth Troy station building has been re-erected at Winchcombe railway station on the Gloucestershire Warwickshire Railway.
General information
LocationMonmouth, Monmouthshire
Wales
Platforms2
Other information
StatusDisused
History
Original companyColeford, Monmouth, Usk and Pontypool Railway[notes 1]
Pre-groupingGreat Western Railway[notes 2]
Post-groupingGreat Western Railway
Key dates
October 1857 (1857-10)Station opened
5 January 1959Closed to passengers
January 1964 (1964-01)Closed to goods
Railways in Monmouth
Ross & Monmouth Railway
 Monmouth Mayhill
Duke of Beaufort Bridge
Monmouth Troy
Goods Yard
River Wye
 Monmouth Troy
Monmouth Viaduct
 Wyesham Halt
Coleford Railway
Wye Valley Railway
Monmouth Troy tunnel
River Trothy
 Dingestow
Coleford, Monmouth, Usk
and Pontypool Railway
Wye Valley Railway
Coleford, Monmouth, Usk
& Pontypool Railway
 Monmouth Troy
Ross and Monmouth Railway
River Trothy and River Wye
 Wyesham Halt
Wyesham Junction
Coleford Railway
Wales
England
 Redbrook on Wye
Penallt Viaduct
over River Wye
Gloucestershire
Monmouthshire
 Penallt Halt
 Whitebrook Halt
 St Briavels
 Llandogo Halt
 Brockweir Halt
 Tintern
River Wye
Monmouthshire
Gloucestershire
Tintern tunnel
182 yd
166 m
Tintern Wireworks Branch
Tintern Quarry
Tidenham tunnel
1190 yd
1088 m
 Netherhope Halt
 Tidenham
Gloucester–Newport line
Wye Valley Junction
 Tutshill for Beachley Halt
 Chepstow East
Chepstow Railway Bridge
over River Wye
Glos.
Mon.
 Chepstow
Gloucester–Newport line
Coleford, Monmouth, Usk
and Pontypool Railway
Ross & Monmouth Rly
Wye Valley Railway
and Coleford Railway
0-46
River Wye
0-00-
 Monmouth Troy
Monmouth Troy tunnel
River Trothy
3-32
 Dingestow
5-56
 Elms Bridge Halt
6-34
 Raglan
6-43
 Raglan Footpath
7-59
Raglan Road
Crossing Halt
8-52
 Llandenny
9-66
 Cefntilla Halt
Usk Tunnel
12-04
 Usk
River Usk
14-28
 ROF Glascoed
14-48
 Glascoed Halt
Welsh Marches line
16-12
 Little Mill Junction
 Pontypool Road
Welsh Marches line
Ross and Monmouth
Railway
mi-ch
Hereford, Ross and
Gloucester Railway
0-00
 Ross-on-Wye
Hereford, Ross and
Gloucester Railway
3-12
 Walford Halt
4-10
 Kerne Bridge
River Wye
Lydbrook tunnel
River Wye
Severn and Wye Railway
5-40
 Lydbrook Junction
Symonds Yat tunnel
7-50
 Symonds Yat
Herts, England
Mon, Wales
border
10-59
 Hadnock Halt
12-31
 Monmouth Mayhill
Wye Valley Railway
and Coleford Railway
River Wye
13-10
 Monmouth Troy
Coleford, Monmouth, Usk
and Pontypool Railway

Monmouth Troy was one of the two former railway stations at Monmouth. It was built in 1857 by the Coleford, Monmouth, Usk and Pontypool Railway and was used by several other branch lines as the local rail network expanded. The station closed in January 1964 following the closure of the last two lines to the station, the Wye Valley Railway and the Ross and Monmouth Railway.

History

Monmouth Troy was built for the Coleford, Monmouth, Usk and Pontypool Railway near to Troy House, and opened on 12 October 1857. It was the larger of the two stations in Monmouth,[1] the other station being Monmouth Mayhill. The Ross & Monmouth Railway found its way to Monmouth Troy in 1874 followed shortly by the Wye Valley Railway in 1876, the Coleford Railway came later in 1883.

The Coleford Railway closed in 1917. The Coleford, Monmouth, Usk and Pontypool Railway withdrew passenger services in 1955, followed by freight services on 12 October 1957. The Wye Valley Railway and Ross and Monmouth Railway struggled on until 1959, when both railways withdrew passenger services. Freight services on both lines to Monmouth Troy were continued until 5 January 1964 when the station officially closed to rail services. If Monmouth had remained a county town it would have been the first county town in Britain to lose all its railway services.[1]

Goods yard

Monmouth Troy also had a large goods yard; this was constructed at the same time as the station, and outlived it by nine months until October 1964 when its non-rail depot closed.[1]

Tunnel

The short tunnel directly to the west of the station that took the railway beneath Gibraltar Hill was called Monmouth Troy tunnel. It was 140 yards (130 m) long. It is sometimes confused with the A40 road tunnel, named Gibraltar Tunnel, that passes under the same hill.[2]

Monmouth Troy today

During the construction of a building estate which would have destroyed the derelict station building, the Gloucestershire Warwickshire Railway bought it and moved the building stone-by-stone from Monmouth and rebuilt it on the restored railway. Re-construction at Winchcombe on the restored line began in 1987 and was completed in 1999; the station is now known as Winchcombe railway station.[1][3]

Preceding station   Disused railways   Following station
Wyesham Halt   Wye Valley Railway
British Railways		   Terminus
Wyesham Halt   Coleford Railway
Great Western Railway		   Terminus
Terminus   Coleford, Monmouth, Usk and Pontypool Railway
British Railways		   Dingestow
Monmouth Mayhill   Ross and Monmouth Railway
British Railways		   Terminus

See also

Notes

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 B. M. Handley and R. Dingwall, The Wye Valley Railway and the Coleford Branch, 1982, ISBN 0-85361-530-6
  2. ↑ Stanley C Jenkins, The Ross, Monmouth and Pontypool Road Line, revised second edition 2009, ISBN 978-0-85361-692-4
  3. ↑ "Chronology". Gloucestershire Warwickshire Railway. Archived from the original on 2 August 2013. Retrieved 13 July 2013.

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