Monmouth Troy railway station

Monmouth Troy was one of the two former stations at Monmouth. It was built in 1857 by the Coleford, Monmouth, Usk and Pontypool Railway and was used by several other branch lines as the local rail network expanded. The station closed in January 1964 following the closure of the last two lines to the station, the Wye Valley Railway and the Ross and Monmouth Railway.

Monmouth Troy
The former Monmouth Troy station building has been re-erected at Winchcombe railway station on the Gloucestershire Warwickshire Railway.
Location
Place	Monmouth
Area	Monmouthshire
Operations
Original company	Coleford, Monmouth, Usk and Pontypool Railway[notes 1]
Pre-grouping	Great Western Railway[notes 2]
Post-grouping	Great Western Railway
Platforms	2
History
October 1857 (1857-10)	Station opened
5 January 1959	Closed to passengers
January 1964 (1964-01)	Closed to goods
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

Railways in Monmouth
Ross and Monmouth Railway Monmouth Mayhill Duke of Beaufort Bridge Monmouth Troy Goods Yard River Wye Monmouth Troy Monmouth Viaduct Wyesham Halt Coleford Railway Wye Valley Railway Monmouth Troy Tunnel River Trothy Dingestow Coleford, Monmouth, Usk and Pontypool Railway

Wye Valley Railway
Coleford, Monmouth, Usk & Pontypool Railway Monmouth Troy Ross and Monmouth Railway River Trothy and River Wye Wyesham Halt Wyesham Junction for Coleford Railway Monmouthshire, Wales Gloucestershire, England Redbrook on Wye Penallt Viaduct over River Wye Gloucestershire Monmouthshire Penallt Halt Whitebrook Halt St Briavels Llandogo Halt Brockweir Halt Tintern River Wye Monmouthshire Gloucestershire Tintern tunnel 182 yd 166 m Tintern Wireworks Branch Tintern Quarry Tidenham tunnel 1190 yd 1088 m Netherhope Halt Tidenham Gloucester–Newport line Wye Valley Junction Tutshill for Beachley Halt Chepstow East Chepstow Railway Bridge over River Wye Gloucestershire Monmouthshire Chepstow Gloucester–Newport line

Coleford Railway
CMU&PR Monmouth Troy Ross and Monmouth Railway River Wye Wyesham Halt Wyesham Junction Redbrook Tunnel Wye Valley Railway Wales England border Newland Newland Tunnel Whitecliff Quarry Whitecliff Tunnel Coleford Coleford (S&WR) Severn and Wye Railway

Coleford, Monmouth, Usk & Pontypool Railway
Ross and Monmouth Railway Wye Valley Railway and Coleford Railway 0m 46ch River Wye 0m 00ch Monmouth Troy Monmouth Troy tunnel River Trothy 3m 32ch Dingestow 5m 56ch Elms Bridge Halt 6m 34ch Raglan 6m 43ch Raglan Footpath 7m 59ch Raglan Road Crossing Halt 8m 52ch Llandenny 9m 66ch Cefntilla Halt Usk Tunnel 12m 04ch Usk River Usk 14m 28ch ROF Glascoed 14m 48ch Glascoed Halt Welsh Marches line 16m 12ch Little Mill Junction Pontypool Road

Ross and Monmouth Railway
Hereford, Ross and Gloucester Railway 0m 00ch Ross-on-Wye Hereford, Ross and Gloucester Railway 3m 12ch Walford Halt 4m 10ch Kerne Bridge River Wye Lydbrook tunnel River Wye Severn and Wye Railway 5m 40ch Lydbrook Junction Symonds Yat tunnel 7m 50ch Symonds Yat Herefordshire, England Monmouthshire, Wales border 10m 59ch Hadnock Halt 12m 31ch Monmouth Mayhill Wye Valley Railway and Coleford Railway River Wye 13m 10ch Monmouth Troy Coleford, Monmouth, Usk and Pontypool Railway

History

Monmouth Troy was built for the Coleford, Monmouth, Usk and Pontypool Railway near to Troy House, and opened on 12 October 1857. It was the larger of the two stations in Monmouth,[1] the other station being Monmouth Mayhill. The Ross & Monmouth Railway found its way to Monmouth Troy in 1874 followed shortly by the Wye Valley Railway in 1876, the Coleford Railway came later in 1883.

The Coleford Railway closed in 1917; The Coleford, Monmouth, Usk and Pontypool Railway withdrew passenger services in 1955, followed by freight services on 12 October 1957. The Wye Valley Railway and Ross and Monmouth Railway struggled on until 1959 when both railways were served with a closure notice and withdrew passenger services. Freight Services on both lines to Monmouth Troy were continued until January 1964. Monmouth Troy station officially closed to rail services on 5 January 1964. If Monmouth had remained a county town it would have been the first county town in Britain to lose all its railway services.[1]

Goods yard

Main article: Monmouth Troy Goods Yard

Monmouth Troy also had a large goods yard; this was constructed at the same time of the station and outlived it by nine months until October 1964 when its non-rail depot closed.[1]

Tunnel

The short tunnel directly to the west of the station that took the railway beneath Gibraltar Hill was called Monmouth Troy tunnel. It was 140 yards (130 m) long. It is sometimes confused with the A40 road tunnel going under the same hill named Gibraltar Tunnel.[2]

Monmouth Troy today

During the construction of a building estate which would have destroyed the derelict station building, the Gloucestershire Warwickshire Railway bought it and moved the building stone by stone from Monmouth and re-built it on the restored railway. Re-construction at Winchcombe on the restored line began in 1987 and was completed in 1999, the station is now known as Winchcombe railway station.[1][3]

Preceding station		Disused railways		Following station
Wyesham Halt		Wye Valley Railway British Railways		Terminus
Wyesham Halt		Coleford Railway Great Western Railway		Terminus
Terminus		Coleford, Monmouth, Usk and Pontypool Railway British Railways		Dingestow
Monmouth Mayhill		Ross and Monmouth Railway British Railways		Terminus

See also

• Winchcombe railway station

Gallery

• 
  Monmouth Troy in November 1958. On the left is 0-4-2T No. 1455 pushing an auto-train from Ross-on-Wye. On the right is 0-6-0PT No. 6439 on a train to Severn Tunnel Junction
• 
  The last passenger train leaving the station, 5 January 1959
• 
  Monmouth Troy station site in 2018

Notes

1. Also used by the Wye Valley Railway, Ross and Monmouth Railway and Coleford Railway.
2. All lines except the Ross and Monmouth Railway were acquired by the Great Western Railway before the Railways Act 1921.

References

1. B. M. Handley and R. Dingwall, The Wye Valley Railway and the Coleford Branch, 1982, ISBN 0-85361-530-6
2. Stanley C Jenkins, The Ross, Monmouth and Pontypool Road Line, revised second edition 2009, ISBN 978-0-85361-692-4
3. "Chronology". Gloucestershire Warwickshire Railway. Archived from the original on 2 August 2013. Retrieved 13 July 2013.

• The Gloucestershire Warwickshire Railways Website
• Information on Monmouth Troy

External links

• An article on the station including photos
• Memories of Monmouth Troy
• A website about the Ross and Monmouth Railway