Holme Lacy railway station

Holme Lacy
The overgrown platform in 2006.
Location
Place	Holme Lacy
Area	Hereford and Worcester
Coordinates	52°01′00″N 2°39′06″W / 52.0168°N 2.6518°W / 52.0168; -2.6518Coordinates: 52°01′00″N 2°39′06″W / 52.0168°N 2.6518°W / 52.0168; -2.6518
Grid reference	SO5535
Operations
Original company	Hereford, Ross and Gloucester Railway
Post-grouping	Great Western Railway
Platforms	1
History
1 June 1855	Station opens
2 November 1964	Station closes
Disused railway stations in the United Kingdom
Closed railway stations in Britain A B C D–F G H–J K–L M–O P–R S T–V W–Z
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Hereford, Ross
and Gloucester Railway

Legend

Welsh Marches Line (S&HR)

Cotswold Line (OW&WR)

River Wye

Rotherwas Junction

ROF Rotherwas

Welsh Marches Line (NA&HR)

Dinedor tunnel

Holme Lacy

Ballingham tunnel

Ballingham

River Wye (Ballingham Bridge)

Fawley Tunnel

River Wye

Ross and Monmouth Railway

Weston under Penyard Halt

Mitcheldean Road & Forest of Dean

Lea Line tunnel

Gloucester to Newport Line

Grange Court

Grange Court Junction

Gloucester to Newport Line

Holme Lacy railway station is a disused wood built railway station that served the village of Holme Lacy in Herefordshire. One of the original two stations between Hereford and Ross, along with Fawley, Holme Lacy opened with the line on 1 June 1855 it was located on the Great Western Railway line linking Ross-on-Wye and Hereford. The platform remains and the station building has been demolished to foundation level.

The rusting railings on the disused platform in 2006.
Another view of the platform, again in 2006.

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Former Services

Preceding station	Disused railways			Following station
Ballingham		Hereford, Ross and Gloucester Railway British Railways		Hereford

Closed railway stations in Herefordshire

Shrewsbury and Hereford Railway	Berrington and Eye Ford Bridge Dinmore Moreton-on-Lugg

Hereford, Ross and Gloucester Railway	Holme Lacy Ballingham Fawley (HR&GR) Backney Halt Ross-on-Wye Weston under Penyard Halt Mitcheldean Road

Leominster and Kington Railway	Kington Titley Junction Forge Crossing Halt Marston Halt Pembridge Ox House Kingsland

Kington and Eardisley Railway	Lyonshall Almeley

Hereford, Hay and Brecon Railway	Whitney-on-Wye Eardisley Kinnersley Moorhampton Credenhill Hereford Moorfields

Golden Valley Railway	Clifford Green's Siding Westbrook Dorstone Peterchurch Vowchurch Bacton Abbeydore

Newport, Abergavenny and Hereford Railway	Hereford Barton Tram Inn St Devereux Pontrilas

West Midland Railway	Withington (Hereford) Stoke Edith Ashperton

Ross and Monmouth Railway	Walford Halt Kerne Bridge Symonds Yat

Worcester, Bromyard and Leominster Railway	Stoke Prior Halt Steens Bridge Fencote Rowden Mill Bromyard Yearsett

Ledbury and Gloucester Railway	Ledbury Town Halt

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