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The Keelings, CINDERFORD, GL14 2NG

Viewed from Station Street. Houses in The Keelings are built on the site of Cinderford railway station, where passenger services ceased in 1958.

The station used to be on the right. It closed to passengers on 3/11/58 (to goods 1/8/67), as terminus of the ex-GW branch from Newnham via Bullo Pill junction, which earlier had been joined at Bilton Junction by ex-Severn & Wye (GW & Midland Joint) Forest of Dean trains from Lydney and from Speech House etc.

This remarkably dull view of a modern housing estate has very little to commend it, other than that it shows the site of Cinderford's railway station, opened by the Severn & Wye Railway in 1900. The station on this site was actually the town's third station: the S&W had opened two previous stations a fair trek from the town and were eventually forced to extend their line into this site closer to the town centre. The only other point of interest is that Keeling was the family name of two successive chief engineers of the Severn & Wye Company, father and son George William Keeling and George Baker Keeling, the second of whom was responsible for the design of the ill-fated Severn Railway Bridge, and it's nice to see that the name lives on! A roughly equivalent view of the station in its heyday can be seen at http://www.forestprints.co.uk/railway_station_cinderford_v1.htm

Artistic licence has been used here. There is only fox and the proportions are wrong. Adult foxes are usually about 2 feet long, so either the one depicted here is a very large fox, or the bridge is tiny. Viewed from Valley Road near the Foxes Bridge Road junction.

Viewed from Valley Road. The access road leads to Bilson Close and Hanover Court.

Viewed from the corner of Station Street.

This is one of two GIS Healthcare factories in Gloucestershire. GIS employs 120 people in its factories, most of them disabled. They are responsible for the delivery, collection, refurbishment and servicing of medical equipment for the NHS and the Adult and Community Care Directorate (Social Services) in Gloucestershire.

View southward towards the buffer-stops of the terminus of the ex-GWR Forest of Dean branch from Newnham via Bullo Pill Junction, closed to passengers 3/11/1958, to goods 1/8/1967; until 8/7/1929 there had also been trains from Drybrook Road on the Severn& Wye Joint line from Lydbrook Junction.

Viewed across Station Street. It looks bad from this side, but it looks worse from the other side. http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/3262197 The building was originally a small hotel located opposite Cinderford railway station. The withdrawal of passenger services from the station in 1958 inevitably reduced business here. It had become a pub by the 1970s. The pub closed down in 2007.

Located on the corner of Station Street and Barleycorn Square.