{"id":8287,"date":"2012-05-02T14:40:29","date_gmt":"2012-05-02T13:40:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/?p=8287"},"modified":"2013-02-03T13:46:22","modified_gmt":"2013-02-03T13:46:22","slug":"kemble-station-and-the-old-cirencester-branch-platform-a-feast-of-gwr-style","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/kemble-station-and-the-old-cirencester-branch-platform-a-feast-of-gwr-style\/","title":{"rendered":"Kemble station and the old Cirencester branch platform – a feast of GWR style"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Kemble<\/p>\n

Immaculately preserved despite not\u00a0seeing\u00a0a passenger train for nearly half a century, the old Cirencester branch platform at Kemble station is a treat if you have a bit of a thing about old Great Western country junction stations (and, sadly, I do).<\/p>\n

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\"Kemble<\/p>\n

The main station at Kemble is still connected to the\u00a0railway\u00a0network, offering\u00a0connections to London Paddington, \u00a0Gloucester and Cheltenham Spa.<\/p>\n

\"Kemble<\/p>\n

The station – constructed from lovely, warm Cotswold stone – has\u00a0barely\u00a0altered over the years and still manages to retain some of the confident grandeur of the railway age.<\/p>\n

\"Kemble<\/p>\n

Even the water tower (used for supplying steam locomotives) survives. It’s now Grade II listed.<\/p>\n

\"Kemble<\/p>\n

Looking more authentically GWR than some preserved lines, the waiting room is an unlikely survivor, sporting pre-war benches and bright, airy glazing.<\/p>\n

You almost expect to see a Castle class GWR loco hauling a rake of\u00a0chocolate\u00a0and cream coaches to puff into view.<\/p>\n

\"Kemble<\/p>\n

Another view of the main line platforms, showing a host of original features still in place.<\/p>\n

Cirencester platform at Kemble<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"Kemble<\/p>\n

A short stub of track remains on the old Cirencester branch platform. It’s now used for stabling the occasional engineers’ train.<\/p>\n

\"Kemble<\/p>\n

\"Kemble<\/p>\n

End of the line. \u00a0The track used to continue on another five miles to the attractive station at Cirencester<\/a>.<\/p>\n

There’s been some mumblings about reopening this line (most of the trackbed is apparently still in situ) although no serious proposals have emerged yet.<\/p>\n

See more photos here:<\/p>\n

Kemble railway station –\u00a0Former GWR country junction<\/a>
\nKemble railway station –\u00a0Disused Cirencester platform<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Immaculately preserved despite not\u00a0seeing\u00a0a passenger train for nearly half a century, the old Cirencester branch platform at Kemble station is a treat if you have a bit of a thing … <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":10908,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[17,193,90],"tags":[417,215,440,439,1200,207],"class_list":["post-8287","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-photos","category-places","category-railways","tag-cirencester","tag-disused-station","tag-gloucestershire","tag-kemble","tag-railways","tag-station"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/kemble-railway-station-28.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pQI7P-29F","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8287","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8287"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8287\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10909,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8287\/revisions\/10909"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10908"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8287"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8287"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8287"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}