Cam railway station

For the present railway station, see Cam and Dursley railway station.

Cam
Site of the former station in 1986
Location
Place	Cam
Area	Stroud
Operations
Original company	Dursley and Midland Junction Railway
Pre-grouping	Midland Railway
Post-grouping	London Midland and Scottish Railway
Platforms	1
History
17 September 1856	Opened
10 September 1962	Closed^[1]
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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Cam railway station served the village of Cam in Gloucestershire, England. The station was on the short Dursley and Midland Junction Railway line which linked the town of Dursley to the Midland Railway's Bristol to Gloucester line at Coaley Junction.

The railway, just 2.5 miles (4 km) long, ran along the valley of the river Cam. Cam station was situated at northern end of the village, close to the cloth mill of Hunt and Winterbotham, to which there was a siding.^[2]

The station opened with the line in 1856 and consisted of a single platform with a brick building and a wooden goods shed. It was the only intermediate station on the line and all passenger trains called there. Journeys between Coaley Junction railway station and Dursley took only 10 minutes and around half a dozen trains were provided each day, with excursion traffic in the summer.^[3] The trains that ran on the line were affectionately known as the "Dursley Donkey".^[4]

Passenger traffic was vulnerable to competition from buses and services ceased on 10 September 1962. Goods services at Cam also finished then, but the line remained open to goods traffic from Dursley under British Rail regularly to 1966 and irregularly to 1968, and even after that the line was retained as a private siding, finally closing in 1970. Cam station was demolished and no trace now remains.

Coaley Junction, where the Dursley line joined the main line, remained open for passenger traffic until 1965 when it was closed with the withdrawal of stopping train services between Bristol and Gloucester. However, local pressure for a station resulted in the opening of a new station close to Coaley in 1994, and this is known as Cam and Dursley.

Services

Preceding station	Disused railways			Following station
Coaley Junction Line closed		Dursley and Midland Junction Railway Midland Railway		Dursley Line closed

References

↑ Butt, R.V.J. (1995). The Directory of Railway Stations. Yeovil: Patrick Stephens. p. 51.
↑ Mike Oakley (2003). Gloucestershire Railway Stations. Wimborne: Dovecote Press. p. 31. ISBN 1-904349-24-2.
↑ Bradshaws Railway Guide, April 1910 (1968 reprint ed.). David and Charles, Newton Abbot. p. 611. ISBN 978-0-7153-4246-6.
↑ "The Dursley Donkey". Cotswold Edge. Retrieved 2008-04-25.

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. James

Cirencester Branch Line	Park Leaze Halt Chesterton Lane Halt Cirencester Town

Tetbury branch line	Jackament's Bridge Halt Rodmarton Platform Church's Hill Halt Culkerton Trouble House Halt Tetbury

Midland and South Western Junction Railway	South Cerney Cirencester Watermoor Foss Cross Chedworth Halt Withington (Glos) Andoversford and Dowdeswell

East Gloucestershire Railway	Lechlade Fairford

Banbury and Cheltenham Direct Railway	Stow-on-the-Wold Bourton-on-the-Water Notgrove Andoversford Junction Charlton Kings Cheltenham Leckhampton

Oxford, Worcester and Wolverhampton Railway	Adlestrop Blockley Chipping Campden Mickleton Halt

Honeybourne Line	Cheltenham High Street Halt Bishops Cleeve Gretton Halt Hayles Abbey Halt Laverton Halt Willersey Halt Weston-sub-Edge

Bristol and South Wales Union Railway	Ashley Hill Horfield Filton Filton Junction Pilning Low Level Cross Hands Halt New Passage Halt New Passage New Passage Pier

Bristol and Gloucester Railway	St Philip's Fishponds Staple Hill Mangotsfield Wickwar Charfield Berkeley Road Coaley Frocester Stonehouse Bristol Road Haresfield Gloucester Eastgate

Mangotsfield and Bath Branch Line	Warmley

Thornbury Branch Line	Iron Acton Tytherington Thornbury

Sharpness Branch Line	Berkeley Sharpness

Dursley and Midland Junction Railway	Cam Dursley

Stonehouse and Nailsworth Railway	Ryeford Dudbridge Stroud Woodchester Nailsworth

Birmingham and Gloucester Railway	Cleeve Cheltenham High Street Badgworth Churchdown

Tewkesbury and Malvern Railway	Tewkesbury

Coordinates: 51°41′56″N 2°21′34″W / 51.69884°N 2.35954°W / 51.69884; -2.35954

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