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    The Sharpness branch line is a railway in Gloucestershire, England, built by the Midland Railway (MR) to connect the port of Sharpness to the main Bristol...
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    Berkeley. Sharpness docks began as a basin giving access to the Gloucester and Sharpness Canal. There were no port facilities at Sharpness itself and...
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  • docks at Sharpness. The Sharpness New Docks & Gloucester & Birmingham Navigation Company started operation at Sharpness in 1874. The branch line was opened...
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  • Thumbnail for Berkeley railway station
    station was on the Sharpness Branch Line, part of the Midland Railway (MR), which connected the Bristol and Gloucester Railway main line at Berkeley Road...
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  • Thumbnail for Cirencester branch line
    Cirencester branch line was a five-mile-long single-track branch railway line in Gloucestershire, England that connected Cirencester to the main line at Kemble...
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  • Thumbnail for Cross Country Route
    uses parts of the South Wales Main Line, Midland Main Line, Swinton–Doncaster line, and the East Coast Main Line. Major cities and towns served along...
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    major restoration. The Gloucester and Sharpness Canal connects the Severn at Gloucester to the Severn at Sharpness, avoiding a stretch of the tidal river...
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    with branch lines to Lydbrook, where it connected with the Ross & Monmouth Railway, and Coleford, where it linked to the Wye Valley Railway via a line known...
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  • Thumbnail for Charfield railway station
    station was on the Bristol and Gloucester Railway, originally a broad gauge line overseen by Isambard Kingdom Brunel, but later taken over by the Midland...
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  • Gloucester and Sharpness Canal (also known as the Gloucester and Berkeley Canal) is a ship canal in the west of England, between Gloucester and Sharpness, completed...
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  • Thumbnail for Cam and Dursley railway station
    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...
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  • line trains across it. The Great Western Railway opened a south curve to the Sharpness branch in 1908, in connection with the Badminton railway line,...
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    at Bentley, West Midlands. The Monarch's Way picks up the closed Anson Branch Canal. This section of the Monarch's Way follows the canal system through...
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    park. In 1896 a new through station was constructed on the Tuffley Loop line on a site that had previously housed the Midland Railway engine shed. The...
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    Severn with Sharpness Docks on the south bank via the Severn Railway Bridge. The railway joined up at Sharpness with the Sharpness Branch Line which had...
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    Severn Estuary and Severn bridges, the meanders of the River Severn above Sharpness, the Forest of Dean, the Welsh hills of Monmouthshire and the Black Mountains...
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  • Thumbnail for Avon Valley Railway
    part of the otherwise-dismantled Midland Railway Mangotsfield and Bath branch line, which was closed in 1966 as a result of the Beeching cuts, due mainly...
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  • Thumbnail for Berkeley Road railway station
    Junction Railway branch from Coaley Junction. In 1875, a branch line from Berkeley Road station was built to the new docks at Sharpness, passing around...
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    Augustine's Reach (also known as St Augustine's Trench), an artificial branch of the docks constructed through marshland belonging to St Augustine's Abbey...
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  • Thumbnail for Xinbeitou branch line
    Xinbeitou branch line (formerly transliterated as Hsin Peitou branch line until 2003) is an elevated, light rail branch line of the Tamsui–Xinyi line. It first...
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    from Lydney to Sharpness in Gloucestershire, England. It was intended chiefly to give access for minerals in the Forest of Dean to Sharpness Docks, and the...
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    Birmingham and Gloucester Railway, which was a standard-gauge line opened on 4 November 1840. This line from Cheltenham was built by the Birmingham and Gloucester...
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    the roundabout and the (now demolished) Air Balloon pub, the road turns sharply and there is a steep downward gradient. This is a bottleneck at peak times...
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    2010. The Vale of Berkeley Railway is a heritage line, with hopes to reopen the Sharpness branch line. "Vale of Berkeley, Stroud". OS GetOutside. Ordnance...
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  • Thumbnail for Fairford railway station
    World War, thought was given to connecting the Fairford branch with the Highworth Branch Line using a 6-mile (9.7 km) spur between Lechlade and Hannington...
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  • Thumbnail for Cotswold Line
    The Cotswold Line is an 86+1⁄2-mile (139.2 km) railway line between Oxford and Hereford in England. The line between Oxford and Worcester was built under...
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  • Thumbnail for Lydney Junction railway station
    the Midland's Sharpness Branch Line, enabling access for the Forest of Dean minerals to the new and more extensive docks at Sharpness. The new Lydney...
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    Great Western Railway at Swindon; there was to be a branch from Kemble to Cirencester. The line was authorised on 21 June 1836, but took several years...
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    the situation was remedied in 1827, on completion of the Gloucester and Sharpness Canal. On the Thames, there had been a proposal for a canal from Lechlade...
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  • Thumbnail for Lydney railway station
    the Midland's Sharpness Branch Line, enabling access for the Forest of Dean minerals to the new and more extensive docks at Sharpness. The new Lydney...
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