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Disused railway station in England
Stonehouse (Bristol Road)
The site of Stonehouse (Bristol Road) station as viewed from the north. The surviving Station Master's house can be seen in the distance.
Bristol Road station was the junction for the Stonehouse and Nailsworth Railway's branch line to Nailsworth, which later had a small branch line of its own to Stroud. Unusually, the junction was to the north of Stonehouse (Bristol Road) station, and the branch line platform was a separate affair to the east of the main line station and connected by a covered pathway. The Nailsworth/Stroud branch lost its passenger services in 1947 as an economy measure, with official closure in 1949, though goods services remained until 1966.
Services to and from the Bristol Road station on the main line closed to passengers under the Beeching Axe in 1965 and to goods traffic the following year. The redundant goods yard became the Stonehouse Coal Concentration Depot from 7 October 1966. It closed in 1989.
Reopening plans
In July 2017, plans were proposed to reopen the station, which would provide a fast link to Bristol. In September 2020, Stroud District Council announced that they had backed plans to reopen the railway station.