Cam and Dursley railway station

Cam and Dursley
Location
Place	Coaley
Local authority	Stroud
Coordinates	51°43′05″N 2°21′32″W / 51.718°N 2.359°W / 51.718; -2.359Coordinates: 51°43′05″N 2°21′32″W / 51.718°N 2.359°W / 51.718; -2.359
Operations
Station code	CDU
Managed by	First Great Western
Platforms in use	2
Live arrivals/departures and station information from National Rail
Annual rail passenger usage
2002/03 *	50,534
2004/05 *	64,355
2005/06 *	72,113
2006/07 *	92,437
2007/08 *	114,901
History
Original company	Railtrack
1994	Opened
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* Annual passenger usage based on sales of tickets in stated financial year(s) which end or originate at Cam and Dursley from Office of Rail Regulation statistics.
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Cam and Dursley railway station is a railway station serving the towns of Cam and Dursley in Gloucestershire. It is located on the main Bristol-Birmingham line, between Yate and Gloucester, at a site close to where Coaley Junction railway station was situated from 1856 to 1965.

The new station

Following a campaign for the reopening of Coaley Junction, the new station called Cam and Dursley opened on the 14th May 1994, about 300 yards (274 m) east of the original site. The new station is unmanned, and consists of two platforms, linked by a footbridge, a car park and bus stop, from which bus services run to nearby Cam, Dursley and Coaley. Passenger services are provided by First Great Western on a largely hourly basis on the Bristol to Gloucester services.

There is a rail user group for the station, Coaley Junction Action Committee (CoJAC), which, following the opening of the new station, continues as a group to press for improvements in the service, etc.

The previous station

Coaley Junction station was originally the junction for the short Dursley and Midland Junction Railway branch to Cam and Dursley, built in 1856 and later taken over by the Midland Railway. The station, also known as Dursley Road, opened to goods on the 2nd August 1856 and to passengers on 18th September 1856. The station had two short platforms on the main line with a very short and sharply curved platform on the branch. Goods facilities were limited, but included a brick goods shed with a crane. The signal box stood at the end of the platform between the branch and mainline.^[1]

The branch closed to passenger traffic on the 10th September 1962, although the mainline platforms remained open for passengers until 4th January 1965. The station closed to goods on 28th June 1968, although the branch remained as a long siding to R A Lister and Company's works at Dursley until 13th July 1970.

Services

First Great Western's local services operate all services at this station. A new timetable was brought out on 10 December 2006 which saw the introduction of a mostly hourly "clockface" service, and a considerable increase in the number of trains calling, with northbound services (on Mondays to Fridays) increased from 11 to 15 and southbound services increased from 13 to 16. Northwards, services are to Gloucester with alternate services carrying onto Cheltenham, Ashchurch for Tewkesbury and Worcester Shrub Hill. Southbound, services are to Bristol and onwards to Bath and Westbury, with some services carrying onto Weymouth.

References

External links

• CoJAC website, the rail user group for Cam and Dursley station

Railway stations in Gloucestershire
Mainline:	Cheltenham Spa - Gloucester
On the Golden Valley Line:	Kemble - Stonehouse - Stroud
On the Bristol-Birmingham Line:	Ashchurch for Tewkesbury - Cam and Dursley
Others:	Lydney - Moreton-in-Marsh
Heritage railway stations in Gloucestershire
Dean Forest Railway:	Lydney Junction - Lydney Town - Norchard - Parkend - St Mary's Halt - Whitecroft
Glos-Warks Railway:	Cheltenham Racecourse - Gotherington - Toddington - Winchcombe
Railway stations in Gloucestershire

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