Monmouth Troy railway station

Monmouth Troy was a railway station built in 1857 for the Coleford, Monmouth, Usk and Pontypool Railway. It stood near Troy House and served as the larger of Monmouth’s two stations, the other being Monmouth Mayhill. Three branch lines later reached the station: the Ross & Monmouth Railway in 1874, the Wye Valley Railway in 1876, and the Coleford Railway in 1883. The Coleford Railway closed in 1917, and passenger services ended in 1955. Freight traffic continued until January 1964, when the station closed completely. A large goods yard operated alongside the station from the start. It handled goods for all four railways that served Monmouth Troy. The yard outlasted the station by nine months, closing in October 1964. A short tunnel under Gibraltar Hill, 130 metres long, carried the line west of the station. Another tunnel, part of an unfinished line planned in the 1860s, survives today in a private garden. The station building was rescued and rebuilt stone by stone on the Gloucestershire Warwickshire Railway. Reconstruction began in 1987 and finished in 1999, when it reopened as Winchcombe station. The goods yard site now lies beneath a housing estate. The surviving tunnel and relocated building are the only visible traces of Monmouth Troy’s railway past.