2020

SO6907 : Awre Junction signal box

taken 4 years ago, near to Awre, Gloucestershire, England

Awre Junction signal box
Awre Junction signal box
The condition of the 1909-built signal box - the deterioration of which has been well documented by Geograph contributors over the years - has gone downhill in the fourteen years since Stuart Wilding took SO6907 : Gloucester to Chepstow Railway Line. The box once controlled the junction with the Forest of Dean Central's line to New Fancy Colliery (although it didn't go that far for long). It was originally intended that the FoDCR transported its traffic directly to a dock at nearby Brimspill, via its own line: this was never built (although some earthworks were completed) and a junction with the South Wales Railway was built instead. The FoDCR never lived up to its promise and was closed in stages from 1872 (four years after opening) to final official closure of the remaining stub to Blakeney in 1949 (although in practice, traffic had fallen off sharply after the end of WWII which had seen the line used for the transport of charcoal). The signal box has been derelict since the 1970s.

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Geographical Context: Railways Derelict, Disused Place: Awre Area: Forest of Dean Primary Subject: Railway Signal Box other tags: Forest of Dean Central Railway Derelict Signal Box Awre Junction South Wales Railway Disused Railway Click a tag, to view other nearby images.
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SO6907, 38 images   (more nearby 🔍)
Photographer
John Winder   (more nearby)
Date Taken
Thursday, 4 June, 2020   (more nearby)
Submitted
Tuesday, 9 June, 2020
Subject Location
OSGB36: geotagged! SO 6915 0723 [10m precision]
WGS84: 51:45.7737N 2:26.9045W
Camera Location
OSGB36: geotagged! SO 6917 0722
View Direction
West-northwest (about 292 degrees)
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