Stroud railway station

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Stroud

Location

Place

Stroud

Local authority

Stroud

Operations

Station code

STD

Managed by

First Great Western

Platforms in use

Live departures and station information from National Rail

Annual Rail Passenger Usage

2004/05 *

0.268 million

2005/06 *

0.281 million

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* Annual passenger usage based on sales of tickets in stated financial year(s) which end or originate at Stroud from Office of Rail Regulation statistics.

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Stroud railway station is a railway station that serves the town of Stroud in Gloucestershire, England. The station is located on the Swindon-Gloucester "Golden Valley" line. It was opened on 12 May 1845 with the opening of the Kemble to Gloucester section of the Cheltenham and Great Western Union Railway, later part of the Great Western Railway. For a period between 1886 and 1947 when Stroud had two passenger railway stations, it was known as Stroud Great Western, Stroud Russell Street or Stroud Central. Stroud's second station, Stroud Wallgate, was the terminus of a short branch line from the Midland Railway's Stonehouse and Nailsworth Railway, and freight services were always more important there than passengers.^[1]

1 Current configuration
2 Current services
3 Ticket office information
4 External links
5 References

[edit] Current configuration

Stroud station has two platforms, and is served by First Great Western: operating services from London Paddington to Gloucester and Cheltenham using HST and "Adelante" Class 180 trains, and local services from Swindon to Gloucester and Cheltenham using the former Wessex Trains Class 143 two carriage sets.

[edit] Current services

Stroud station is served on a Monday to Friday by:

18 Swindon bound trains, 8 of which continue to London Paddington via Reading
18 Gloucester bound trains, 17 of which continue to Cheltenham Spa.

The Greater Western Franchise's new timetable came into effect from 11th December 2006. Thanks to First Great Western, Stroud has benefited from an almost hourly clockface timetable throughout the day Monday to Friday, instead of the large and small gaps between services which can be seen in the previous timetable.^{[citation needed]}

Preceding station		Following station
Kemble	First Great Western London - Cheltenham	Stonehouse
Kemble	First Great Western Golden Valley Line	Stonehouse
Kemble	First Great Western Cheltenham - Westbury	Stonehouse

[edit] Ticket office information

The station does have a ticket office, located on the Swindon bound platform, which is open for the majority of the day, seven days a week:

Monday - Friday: 0630 to 1800
Saturday: 0715 to 1430
Sunday: 1030 to 1720

At times when the ticket office is closed, the station is unmanned.

[edit] External links

The full timetable is available here.
Train times and station information for Stroud railway station from National Rail

[edit] References

^ Mike Oakley. Gloucestershire Railway Stations, 2003, Dovecote Press, Wimborne, pp128–129.

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