Railway Station/private school- Boxbush (General)

by grunson, Tuesday, September 08, 2009, 08:52 (5629 days ago) @ spindles

I believe you may be talking about Hopesbrook station which was just up the road from Boxbush just before the Mitcheldean (aka Lea/Boxbush) tunnel. The Hereford, Ross and Gloucester line initially opened as far as Hopesbrook c. 1853 and then when the remainder of the line was opened in 1855 the station was closed. Whether it would ever have had a turntable I couldn't say. Similarly having station buildings seems a little extravagant for a temporary station unless it had wooden ones or the original idea wasn't for it to be so temporary.

http://www.englandspastforeveryone.org.uk/resources/assets/L/Longhope_social_history_19... has discussion of various schools but I don't know the area at all so couldn't say if any of the locations correspond to that of the old railway station.