Daffodil Line
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Ledbury to Gloucester

The Ledbury and Gloucester Railway (also known as the Daffodil Line), was a railway line running between Ledbury and Gloucester. It opened in 1885 and closed in 1964.
 
Most of the line was built over the route of the southern section of the Herefordshire and Gloucestershire Canal, which had opened in 1798.
 
The line closed to passenger traffic in 1959, with the Dymock to Gloucester section remaining open to goods traffic until 1964.
 
[Station Building]
 

Sources
1897 - 1980 A Retrospect Tilleys Almanacks - Herefordshire History
Photographs are credited to the owners where possible
Comments in italics are from the Old Ledbury Facebook Group
Cuttings from Old Ledbury Reporter Newspapers