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The Forest of Dean Central Railway was a mineral railway line designed to connect certain collieries in the central part of the Forest of Dean to a new dock at Brimspill on the River Severn. It was authorised by Parliament in 1856, but serious difficulties were encountered in raising the money to build it. It opened in 1868 by which time the principal colliery intended to be served had ceased operation. It was unable to finance the construction of the dock at Brimspill and relied on transfer of traffic to the main line of the South Wales Railway (later the Great Western Railway).

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  • Die Forest of Dean Central Railway war eine britische Eisenbahngesellschaft in Gloucestershire in England. Die Gesellschaft wurde am 11. Juli 1856 gegründet. Ziel war der Bau einer Bahnstrecke zwischen einem geplanten Hafen bei Brimspill am Severn und den Kohlengruben Howbeach, New Fancy und Foxes Bridge im Forest of Dean. Da nicht alle Anteilseigner ihre Anteile bezahlten, geriet die Gesellschaft schon kurz nach der Gründung in finanzielle Probleme. Die Great Western Railway stieg deshalb in das Unternehmen ein. Die am 25. Mai 1868 eröffnete 7,6 Kilometer lange Strecke wurde in der Breitspur von 2140 mm errichtet. Es war die letzte Breitspurstrecke die in Großbritannien eröffnet wurde. In erfolgte der Anschluss an das Streckennetz der Great Western Railway. Der Abschnitt zwischen dem Anschluss der New Fancy-Grube und Foxes Bridge wurde nicht mehr fertiggestellt, da inzwischen die Grube ihre Kohle anderweitig abtransportierte. Die Forest of Dean Central Railway wurde erst mit dem Railways Act 1923 in die GWR eingegliedert. Durch den Bau der Strecke der zu den Kohlegruben im Forest of Dean, verlor die Gesellschaft ab 1875 einen Großteil ihrer Kundschaft. Ab 1921 wurde nur noch auf der Teilstrecke bis zum Ort ein Betrieb durchgeführt. Dieser Abschnitt wurde 1949 stillgelegt. (de)
  • The Forest of Dean Central Railway was a mineral railway line designed to connect certain collieries in the central part of the Forest of Dean to a new dock at Brimspill on the River Severn. It was authorised by Parliament in 1856, but serious difficulties were encountered in raising the money to build it. It opened in 1868 by which time the principal colliery intended to be served had ceased operation. It was unable to finance the construction of the dock at Brimspill and relied on transfer of traffic to the main line of the South Wales Railway (later the Great Western Railway). It was a broad gauge line, and it was worked from the outset by the Great Western Railway. It was converted to standard gauge in 1872. The limited traffic potential resulted in a continuing inability to pay routine outgoings, and it was leased to the Great Western Railway in 1885. About 1921 the last colliery on the line ceased operation and the line was shortened back to Blakeney, where there was a goods depot. That business too ended in 1949, and there was no more commercial use of the line. (en)
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  • October 1922 no regular trains beyond Blakeney, (en)
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  • Forest of Dean Central Railway until Great Western Railway absorbed it in 1923 (en)
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  • Die Forest of Dean Central Railway war eine britische Eisenbahngesellschaft in Gloucestershire in England. Die Gesellschaft wurde am 11. Juli 1856 gegründet. Ziel war der Bau einer Bahnstrecke zwischen einem geplanten Hafen bei Brimspill am Severn und den Kohlengruben Howbeach, New Fancy und Foxes Bridge im Forest of Dean. Da nicht alle Anteilseigner ihre Anteile bezahlten, geriet die Gesellschaft schon kurz nach der Gründung in finanzielle Probleme. Die Great Western Railway stieg deshalb in das Unternehmen ein. Die am 25. Mai 1868 eröffnete 7,6 Kilometer lange Strecke wurde in der Breitspur von 2140 mm errichtet. Es war die letzte Breitspurstrecke die in Großbritannien eröffnet wurde. In erfolgte der Anschluss an das Streckennetz der Great Western Railway. Der Abschnitt zwischen dem Ans (de)
  • The Forest of Dean Central Railway was a mineral railway line designed to connect certain collieries in the central part of the Forest of Dean to a new dock at Brimspill on the River Severn. It was authorised by Parliament in 1856, but serious difficulties were encountered in raising the money to build it. It opened in 1868 by which time the principal colliery intended to be served had ceased operation. It was unable to finance the construction of the dock at Brimspill and relied on transfer of traffic to the main line of the South Wales Railway (later the Great Western Railway). (en)
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