Mitcheldean Road & Forest of Dean Junction Railway

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.
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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.


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