Gloucestershire Warwickshire Railway

Gloucestershire Warwickshire Railway
The Honeybourne Line
GWR 2-8-0 28xx Class No. 2807 and its train are seen at Toddington
Locale	Gloucestershire, Worcestershire England
Terminus	Cheltenham Race Course and Broadway
Commercial operations
Name	The Honeybourne Line
Built by	Great Western Railway
Original gauge	4 ft 8+1⁄2 in (1,435 mm) standard gauge
Preserved operations
Operated by	Gloucestershire Warwickshire Steam Railway Plc
Stations	6
Length	14 miles (23 km)
Preserved gauge	4 ft 8+1⁄2 in (1,435 mm) standard gauge
Commercial history
Opened	1906
Closed	1976
Preservation history
1981	Gloucestershire Warwickshire Steam Railway Plc formed and track re-laying began
1984	First public service along relaid section of track between Toddington Station and (the site of) Hayles Abbey Halt
1987	GWR Extended to Winchcombe
1990	GWR Extended to (the site of) Gretton halt
1997	Extended to Gotherington
2003	Extended to Cheltenham Race Course
2011	GWR extends to (the site of) Laverton halt
2017	Hayles Abbey Halt reopens
2018	Extended to Broadway
Headquarters	Toddington, Gloucestershire

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Legend
miles [1] North Warwickshire Line to Birmingham Snow Hill Alcester branch line Leamington–Stratford line 32.8 Wilmcote Stratford-upon-Avon Parkway 29.1 Stratford-upon-Avon Evesham Road Crossing Halt 1904 1916 Stratford & Midland Junction Railway to Broom Junction│to Fenny Compton Stratford Racecourse Platform Chambers Crossing Halt 1904 1916 26.1 Milcote 23.5 Long Marston Long Marston Depot Warwickshire Worcestershire boundary Broad Marston Halt 1904 1916 Pebworth Halt Cotswold Line to Worcester Shrub Hill 21.1 Honeybourne Cotswold Line to Oxford Worcestershire Gloucestershire boundary 18.8 Weston-sub-Edge Willersley Halt 16.1 Broadway Worcestershire Gloucestershire boundary Laverton Halt Stanway Viaduct 11.6 Toddington Toddington Narrow Gauge Railway Hayles Abbey Halt 9.0 Winchcombe Greet Tunnel 693 yd 634 m 7.6 Gretton Halt 5.6 Gotherington 4.1 Bishops Cleeve 2.3 Cheltenham Racecourse Hunting Butts Tunnel 97 yd 89 m Cheltenham High Street Halt Cheltenham St James Cheltenham Malvern Road Cross Country Route to Birmingham New Street 0.0 Cheltenham Spa (Lansdown) Lansdown Junction Cross Country Route to Bristol Parkway

The Gloucestershire Warwickshire Steam Railway (GWR, GWSR or Gloucs-Warks Steam Railway) is a volunteer-run heritage railway which runs along the Gloucestershire/Worcestershire border of the Cotswolds in England.

The GWSR has restored and reopened around 14 miles (23 km) of track, operating between Cheltenham Race Course and Broadway. The most recent extension to Broadway (completed in 2018) involved the company raising £1.38 million. The 28-mile return trip on steam and heritage diesel trains follows part of the route of the former Great Western main line from Birmingham to Cheltenham.^[2] There is a long-term aim of extending a further 6 miles (9.7 km) from Broadway to the national rail network at Honeybourne.