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Gloucester railway station
Gloucester railway station
(formerly known as Gloucester Central station) is a
railway station
serving the city of
Gloucester
in England. The station was originally built as the terminus of the
Birmingham and Gloucester Railway
in 1840, but the arrival of the (broad gauge)
Bristol and Gloucester Railway
and
Cheltenham and Great Western Union Railway
in 1844, and then conversion to a through station for the
South Wales Railway
in 1851 resulted in a very complex layout. Subsequent closures and rationalization have left Gloucester with a station that is located off the main
Bristol-Birmingham line
, meaning trains that call at Gloucester usually have to reverse. Only trains that continue along the
Gloucester to Newport Line
do not have to reverse.
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